Birthright Citizenship Under the 14th Amendment of Persons Born in the United States to Alien Parents.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service. American Law Division.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children.

Citizenship.

Civil rights.

Constitutional amendments.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource (22 pages)) : digital, PDF file

monochrome

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2012.

System Details:

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text file

PDF

Summary:

Reviews historical development of tenet of U.S. citizenship that a person born in the U.S. to alien parents is a U.S. citizen, including the Fourteenth Amendment and the Civil Rights Act of 1866; and examines legislative proposals to exclude the children of illegal and nonimmigrant aliens from automatic birthright citizenship, including proposed constitutional and statutory amendments.

Notes:

CRS Report.

Record is based on bibliographic data in ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection (last viewed Oct. 2015). Reuse except for individual research requires license from ProQuest, LLC.

Other Format:

Microfiche version: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service. American Law Division. Birthright Citizenship Under the 14th Amendment of Persons Born in the United States to Alien Parents

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