On July 27, 2022, Hofstra Law Professor Irina Manta and Western Reserve University School of Law Professor Cassandra Burke Robertson co-authored the Lawfare article “Constitutional Citizenship in the U.S. Territories.”
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The Fourteenth Amendment guarantees citizenship to “[a]ll persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof.” But what does it mean to be born “in the United States”? For individuals born in the U.S. territories, this is a question of paramount importance. In a recently published law review article entitled “Integral Citizenship,” we argue that the Fourteenth Amendment extends to all individuals born within the territory of the United States. A cert petition filed with the Supreme Court on April 22 raises this issue.
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