WebMemo posted December 1, 2005 by Edward Erler
Birthright Citizenship and the Constitution
The following is an entry
concerning the first section of Amendment 14 of the Constitution as
found in The Heritage Guide to the
Constitution.
Before the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment, citizens of the
states were automatically considered citizens of the United States.
In 1857, the Dred Scott v. Sanford decision had held that no black
of African descent…