- Tuesday, October 30, 2018

The 14th Amendment, ratified in 1868, says that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.”

Legal scholars say the debate is over what it means to be “subject to the jurisdiction thereof.”

 

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