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Amendment XIV : citizenship for all / Jeff Hay, book editor.

Farmington Hills, MI : Greenhaven Press, Gale, Cengage Learning, ©2009.

170 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Puts amendment XIV in historical context, examines how it has been tested in the courts, and presents current controversies and debates.

Constitutional amendments

Constitutional amendments (Detroit, Mich.)

United States. Constitution. 14th Amendment.

Citizenship -- United States.

Citizenship -- United States -- History.

African Americans -- Civil rights.

Immigrants -- Civil rights -- United States.

Hay, Jeff.

Amendment 14

Amendment Fourteen

Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-161) and index.

Historical background on the Fourteenth Amendment. Fourteenth Amendment confirms that African Americans are indeed U.S. citizens / Akhil Reed Amar ; Fourteenth Amendment emerged out of an earlier Civil Rights Act / Kenneth L. Karst ; It is absurd to consider former slaves anything other than full citizens / James F. Wilson ; Fourteenth Amendment would establish federal despotism over the individual states / A.J. Rogers ; Reconstruction inspired political debate and public violence / Eric Foner ; Fourteenth Amendment will help America fulfill its promise / Thaddeus Stevens ; America committed itself to citizenship for people of all ethnicities / Earl Warren -- Testing the Fourteenth Amendment's citizenship clause. Fourteenth Amendment ensures citizenship to all people born on U.S. soil / Horace Gray ; Fourteenth Amendment's citizenship clause is contrary to legal tradition and sets a dangerous precedent / Melville Fuller ; Naturalized U.S. citizen cannot have his or her citizenship taken away without consent / Hugo Black ; Fourteenth Amendment does not guarantee citizenship in all circumstances / John Marshall Harlan ; Individual states cannot deny public education to the children of undocumented immigrants / William Brennan -- Citizenship controversies in contemporary America. Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of birthright citizenship should be changed / Ron Paul ; Current debates over citizenship for immigrants recall arguments from earlier times / Garrett Epps ; Illegal immigrants abuse the Fourteenth Amendment by having babies in the United States / Dmitri Vasillaros ; Recent immigrants and their babies are no threat / Priscilla Huang ; Fourteenth Amendment allows for dual citizenship and divided loyalties / Allan Wall ; Despite an increase in dual citizenship, most immigrants are loyal to the United States / Michael Barone.

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