Alumnus Patrick Charles Writes Article on Birthright Citizenship

C|M|LAW Alumnus Patrick J. Charles has posted Decoding the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause: Unlawful Immigrants, Allegiance, Personal Subjection, and the Law (Washburn Law Journal, Vol. 51, No. 2, 2012) on SSRN.  The abstract states:

The purpose of this article is to decode the jus soli principles of the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause. It seeks to examine the legal tenets of birthright citizenship in the late nineteenth century, and concludes the Citizenship Clause is not an absolute command, and may be supplemented by legislation dependent on the tenets of allegiance, personal subjection, and international norms. From the 1866 Civil Rights Act through the Supreme Court’s decision in United States v. Wong Kim Ark, this article will trace the legal tenets of birthright citizenship as a means to better understand the Citizenship Clause.

Patrick Charles is currently employed as a historian for the United States Air Force.

Thanks to Jessica Mathewson for the tip.