![]() The proposed legislation would also require all people in the U.S., whether citizens or not, to prove their status before they can receive a standard birth certificate for their baby. On Wednesday, a group of state legislators announced that they will introduce bills in their state legislatures this coming session that would similarly undermine the 14th Amendment by requiring states to deny standard birth certificates to many U.S. citizens entitled to equal protection under the law. The proposed legislation violates the constitutional guarantee that all people born in the U.S. society including U.S.-born children to parents with lawful status such as refugees, foreign investors, scientists, engineers, artists, athletes, scholars and graduate students. This radical proposal would deny citizenship to large segments of U.S. citizens or nationals, children of permanent residents and children of non-citizens in active-duty military service. 140 attempts to upend the 14th Amendment by rewriting the citizenship clause to restrict citizenship to only three categories of people: children of U.S. Constitutional citizenship represents America’s commitment to equality, fairness and justice under the law. citizenship to every child born in the U.S., with very limited exceptions. Since its creation, the Constitution has guaranteed U.S. This radical unconstitutional bill should be soundly rejected.” It is too important to be defined by the political whims of any era. soil has been one of the Constitution’s most essential engines of equality and fairness under the law. Murphy, Director of the ACLU Washington Legislative Office. “How ironic it is that this unconstitutional bill, designed to subvert the 14th Amendment citizenship clause, would be introduced at the same time that members of Congress are on the House floor reciting the text of the Constitution and affirming their commitment to defend and uphold it,” said Laura W. Constitution in its entirety, including the text of the 14th Amendment, in a public pledge to support and defend the Constitution. ![]() The bill was introduced on the first day of the new congressional session, shortly before members of Congress went to the House floor to recite the U.S. Steve King (R-IA) late Wednesday, aims to gut the constitutional guarantee of citizenship enshrined in the 14th Amendment and to overturn long-established Supreme Court precedent. citizens the fundamental protections of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Unconstitutional Bill Introduced As Members Recite The Constitution In Pledge To Uphold ItĬONTACT: (202) 675-2312 – The American Civil Liberties Union today called on Congress to reject proposed legislation intended to deny U.S.
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