[Niteflyr]

The Constitution clearly provided that former slaves born in the US were citizens. That was the intention. Decades later a series of bad court decisions resulted in the re-interpretation of the clause in ways rejected by the folks who'd written it. There is no "law" in the sense of a statute that creates "birthright citizenship". In fact, the whole business rests on nothing more than reversible court decisions. If that happens, there are millions of Americans who will find that they are no longer citizens and must return to their native country somewhere else.

You are exactly right....all it takes is a re-interpretation as it was never intended to foster the "anchor baby" debacle...

[muawiyah]

We saw the Supreme Court reverse Plessey v. Ferguson with Brown v. Board of Education.

A future court, for a variety of conceivable reasons, could reverse the current interpretation on "born" ~ possibly by tieing in the "jurisdiction of" clause, and massive social dislocations would ensue.

The illegal alien advocates did not seem to appreciate that threat in their latest effort to write a law to legalize 20 million Mexicans ~ apparantly they are unaware of the power of the courts in this country.