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Alan Dershowitz: Birthright Citizenship Is 'Bizarre'

2015-08-21

BLUF:
[Breitbart] "Anybody born in the United States, even if they're there for 15 minutes, not only is a citizen but has a right to run for president in the United States," he added. "Whereas a person who came when he or she was six months old and is one of the most loyal possible Americans -- Madeleine Albright comes to mind -- can't run for president of the United States, there is something quite bizarre about that but history, the accidents of history are often quite bizarre."
Set aside what happened one hundred fifty or two hundred years ago. Things happen. Reality has changed.

Posted by:Besoeker

#7 Subject to the jurisdiction thereof...

But illegals are not subject to the jursidiction - they are alines, and illegally here, therefor not subject to US jurisdiction except for that which deals with their deportation. Dont think so? try putting Mexican in for a Death Penalty crime - and watch the Mexicans claim the US doesnt have Jurisdiction and demand their return to Mexico.

Posted by: OldSpook 2015-08-21 23:02

#6 Since when does the constitution matter? An executive order is all that is needed to stop anchor babies.

Posted by: Airandee 2015-08-21 20:10

#5 Well, we're certainly not going to amend our Constitution just so Madeleine Albright can run for president.

Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2015-08-21 15:44

#4 "Whereas a person who came when he or she was six months old and is one of the most loyal possible Americans -- Madeleine Albright comes to mind -- can't run for president of the United States, there is something quite bizarre about that but history, the accidents of history are often quite bizarre."

A Macedonian led the Greeks into a series of bloody wars of conquest. A Corsican ran France into a series of bloody wars of conquest. An Austrian ran the Germans into a series of bloody wars of conquest. I don't think the rule about forbidding non-foreign borns to be President is so outlandish.

Posted by: rjschwarz 2015-08-21 15:07

#3 I believe the missing word is 'law'.
Today, it's all about power. For the Left, the ends justify the means which usually involves the absence of law and the application of power.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-08-21 10:31

#2 ...."without due process of law"

And the five simple words of Amendment XIV, Section 1, which ARE NOT HAPPENING !

Posted by: Besoeker 2015-08-21 10:00

#1 Amendment XIV
Section 1.

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

It doesn't get any clearer than that boys and girls. It was written as such to prohibit states from treating former slaves as non-citizens. I'm sure the 'progressives' out there would like to reinterpret that, but if you are a textual reader of the old Constitution, you can't get away from it.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-08-21 09:49

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