Articles on Birthright Citizenship and the 14^th Amendment to the US Constitution

Articles - Recommended Reading

• Jacob Howard on the Intent of the 14th Amendment Testimony entered into the Congressional Record (1866)
• Anchor Babies: The Children of Illegal Aliens, (Federation for American Immigration Reform)
• The 14th amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the dangerous misinterpretation of the birthright citizenship clause by D.A. King (2009)
• Born in the U.S.A.? Rethinking B irthright Citizenship in the Wake of 9/11, Congressional testimony of Dr. John C. Eastman, Professor of Law, Chapman University School of Law, Director, The Claremont Institute Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence. Testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Immigration - Border Security and Claims (2005)
• Dr. John C. Eastman, Professor of Law, Chapman University School of Law, Director, The Claremont Institute Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, Dual Citizenship, Birthright Citizenship, and the Meaning of Sovereignty - Testimony, U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Immigration - Border Security and Claims (September 29, 2005)
• Reapportionment, and United States Census, 2000 (Wikipedia)
• Sarah Adams, The Basic Right of Citizenship, The Social Contract (Summer 1994)
• Tom Andres, End Birthright Citizenship, The Social Contract (Spring, 1999)
• Barefoot, [Arguments for] The Unconstitutionality of the 14th Amendment (April 1997)
• Leon F. Bouvier, The Impact of Immigration on Congressional Representation (Center for Immigration Studies, July, 1988)
• William Buchanan, HR-73 -- Protecting America's Sovereignty, The Social Contract (Fall, 1999) - includes discussion of the related Wong Kim Ark 1898 Supreme Court case
• Steven A. Camarota, The Impact of Non-Citizens on Congressional Apportionment, Testimony prepared for the House Subcommittee on Federalism and the Census (Center for Immigration Studies, December 6, 2005)
• Steven A. Camarota, Rotten Boroughs - Immigration's Effect on the Redistribution of House Seats (Center for Immigration Studies, Fall, 1998)
• William Chip, Not a Birthright, The Social Contract (Fall 1996)
• Madeleine Pelner Cosman, Ph.D., Esq., Illegal Aliens and American Medicine, The Journal of the American Physicians and Surgeons, Volume 10 Number 1 (Spring 2005)
• Tom DeWeese, The Mexican Fifth Column, The Federal Observer (January 27, 2003)
• Tom DeWeese, The Outrages of the Mexican Invasion (American policy Center)
• Edward Erler, Birthright Citizenship and the Constitution (Heritage Foundation, December 1, 2005)
• James Gimpel and John Edwards, Immigration Dilutes the Voting Rights of Citizens - Gimpel, The Social Contract (Winter 2005)
• Joe Guzzardi, 500,000 Anchor Babies A Year?, (VDare.com, Marcy 25, 2005)
• Al Knight, Change U.S. law on anchor babies Denver Post, (June 22, 2005)
• Al Knight, Track 'anchor babies' Denver Post (September 11, 2002)
• P.A. Madison, Alien Birthright Citizenship: A Fable That Lives Through Ignorance, Federalist Blog (December 17, 2005)
• P.A. Madison, A Dummies Guide to Understanding the Fourteenth Amendment, Federalist Blog (April 20, 2007)
• P.A. Madison, Former Research Fellow in Constitutional Studies, The UnConstitutionality of Citizenship by Birth to Non-Americans (February 1, 2005)
• P.A. Madison, Why U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark Can Never Be Considered Settled Birthright Law, The Federalist Blog
• Malkin, Michelle, American Citizenship Draining Away Through 'Citizen Child Loophole, VDare.com (July 03, 2003)
• Dudley. L. Poston, Jr., "The U.S. Census and Congressional apportionment" (Society, 34, March-April 1997, pp.36-44)
• Dudley L. Poston, Jr., Steven A. Camarota, Leon F. Bouvier, Godfrey Jin-Kai Li, and Hong Dan, Remaking the Political Landscape - How Immigration Redistributes Seats in the House (Center for Immigration Studies, October 1998)
• Dudley L. Poston, Jr., Leon F. Bouvier, and Hong Dan , "The Impacts of apportionment Method and Legal and Illegal Immigration on Congressional apportionment in the Year 2000" (Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Demographic Association, Orlando, Florida, September 25-27, 1997)
• Dudley L. Poston, Jr., Steven A. Camarota, and Amanda K. Baumle, Remaking the Political Landscape - The Impact of Illegal and Legal Immigration on Congressional Apportionment (Center for Immigration Studies, October 2003)
• Peter Schuck, Citizenship Without Consent The Social Contract (Fall, 1996)
  Read the book: Peter H. Schuck and Rogers M. Smith, "Citizenship Without Consent: Illegal Aliens in the American Polity", (Yale Fastback, No 29, 1985), ISBN: 0300035306
• Professors Peter Schuck and Rogers Smith, "Consensual Citizenship" Chronicles (July 1992)
• David Simcox, Universalist Intentions, Particularist Outcomes, The Social Contract (Fall 1995)
• Howard Sutherland, Weigh Anchor! Enforce the Citizenship Clause VDare.com (August 31, 2001) [includes discussion of ratification debates]
• U.S. Supreme Court ELK v. WILKINS, 112 U.S. 94, (Findlaw, 1884)
• U.S. Supreme Court Slaughter-House cases ('Lectric Law Library, 1873)
• U.S. Supreme Court U.S. v. WONG KIM ARK, 169 U.S. 649, 169 U.S. 649, United States v. Wong Kim Ark. No. 132. (CaseLaw, March 28, 1898) [full text of Supreme Court ruling]
• Moses E. Washington, [Auguments that] The 14th Amendment never passed Truth Set Us Free (June 1, 2003)
• "Losing Control of America's Future - the Census, Birthright Citizenship, & Illegal Aliens", Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy (Spring, 1999)
• Charles Wood , Losing Control of America's Future -- Census, Birthright Citizenship & Illegal Aliens, The Social Contract (Spring 2005)
• Charles Wood, Losing Control of the Nation's Future -- Part One -- The Census and Illegal Aliens (The Social Contract Winter 2005) [This article is adapted from a larger paper, "Losing Control of America's Future - the Census, Birthright Citizenship, & Illegal Aliens", Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy (Spring, 1999)]
• Charles Wood, Losing Control of the Nation's Future -- Part Two -- Birthright Citizenship and Illegal Aliens, The Social Contract (Winter, 2005-2006) - includes discussion of the related Wong Kim Ark 1898 Supreme Court case

Note that several articles referenced above are included in The Social Contract journal Volume 16, Number 2, "The 14th Amendment: what were the intentions of the Amendment's framers?"

Legal and Historical Resources

• Constitution.org extensive details about the debate and ratification process.
• Cornell Law School
• FindLaw legal resources includes substantial annotations and case references.
• US Constitution.net
• US National Park Service history and ratification.
• US National Archives

Terminology

• Illegal alien