Sentence examples for citizenship clauses from inspiring English sources

The vast majority, 79 percent, oppose the law aimed at curbing illegal immigration passed in Arizona, while 78 percent oppose repealing the birthright citizenship clauses of the Constitution.

But Mr. Krikorian does not favor an immediate effort to amend the Constitution's citizenship clause.

The citizenship clause reflected a new American approach to political membership.

Particularly relevant to today's controversy was the floor debate on the citizenship clause.

This explains why it passed — one day before the citizenship clause was ratified — the Expatriation Act, allowing Americans to shed their American or foreign citizenship.

Sen. Lyman Trumbull, for example, a leading advocate in Congress for the citizenship clause, was quoted by Anton as somehow supporting his twisted reading of the clause.

Virtually all the complaints from today's birthright citizenship deniers were heard when the citizenship clause was debated 150 years ago.

The citizenship clause shuts the door on compensation claims by many Polish Jews who lost their property and have since emigrated.

The Republican war on the 14th Amendment's citizenship clause is indeed directed at a mortal threat -- but not to the American nation.

Before the war, no community had been more haunted by the Constitution's absence of a citizenship clause than freed slaves and their descendants.

They had lived and labored for generations in a legal limbo that the new 14th Amendment's birthright citizenship clause promised to resolve.