Adopted Quote by St. George Tucker

Every human being born within the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is in the language of your Constitution…

— John Bingham

All from other lands, who by the terms of [congressional] laws and a compliance with their provisions become naturalized, are adopted citizens of the…

— John Bingham

“Though Article II requires “natural born” citizenship, the Constitution does not explain what the phrase means. There was no constitutional definition of American citizenship…

— Garrett Epps

Therefore every person born within the United States, its territories or districts, whether the parents are citizens or aliens, is a natural born citizen…

— William Rawle

“The clause that grants all “persons” equal protection under the law, in context, seems to apply pretty clearly only to human beings “born or…

— Thom Hartmann

There is not, in the Constitution, a syllable that implies that persons, born within the territorial limits of the United States, have allegiance imposed…

— Lysander Spooner

“Nationalism always preserved this initial intimate loyalty to the government and never quite lost its function of preserving a precarious balance between nation and…

— Hannah Arendt

The 14th Amendment, 2nd Amendment, there's nothing in the Constitution that says that if you are born to an illegal immigrant in America, that…

— Rush Limbaugh

In addition to protecting the rights of every citizen of our country, our Constitution makes the citizens of the country mindful of their duties.

— Ram Nath Kovind

I was born in the U.S., my wife was born in Mexico and emigrated here when she was in college, and my daughters were…

— Jeffrey Kluger

Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk…

— Andrew Jackson

“The Indian makes a good citizen, a good farmer, a good soldier. He is a real American, and all those of us who have…

— William F. Cody