If those who wrote and ratified the 14th Amendment had imagined laws restricting immigration - and had anticipated huge waves of illegal immigration - is it reasonable to presume they would have wanted to provide the reward of citizenship to the children of the violators of those laws? Surely not.
タグ: who, reward, waves, children

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The first election I remember was Dewey Truman in '48. I was, I guess, seven years old.
タグ: first, old, remember, election
Barack Obama hopes his famous health care victory will mark him as a transformative president. History, however, may judge it to have been his missed opportunity to be one.
タグ: victory, opportunity, health, history
Government has the role of suiting people for freedom. People aren't made for freedom spontaneously. There's sort of a 19-year race between when people are born and when they become adults. And government has a role in making them, at the end of 19 years, suited to be upright, trustworthy repositories of popular sovereignty.
タグ: born, government, people, freedom
Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.
タグ: those, inside, childhood, business
The strongest continuous thread in America's political tradition is skepticism about government.
タグ: about, political, tradition, government
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