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GOP candidates rethinking Constitution to end birthright citizenship
so these great 'constitutional' minds want to change the constitution...they don't give a shit about immigrants.
Donald Trump is sending the immigration debate reeling to the right – and taking the crowded GOP presidential pack along with him – by essnetially calling to change the U.S. Constitution in order to combat illegal immigration, a policy prescription previously championed only by the most anti-immigrant firebrands in the Republican Party.
Now the idea is going mainstream.
Calls to end so-called “birthright citizenship” blew up within hours after Trump released his first detailed policy proposal since spouting blanket accusations about drug dealers and rapists coming to the U.S. from Mexico. Candidates who had previously supported banning automatic citizenship to any person born in the U.S. clamored to prove they came up with the idea first. Others are now being pressed to publicly address an issue traditionally left in the fringe.
Since the end of the Civil War, anyone born on U.S. soil has been granted full rights and formal recognition as American citizens. It has been a constitutional right for generations, reinforcing our nation’s legacy as one founded by immigrants and solidifying immigration as a key component of the American Dream.
What Trump is proposing is somewhat remarkable. Experts widely believe that eliminating birthright citizenship would require, at least to some degree, changing the Constitution. Two-thirds of both houses of Congress would need to sign onto the plan. Then three-fourths of state legislatures would need to ratify changes to the 14th Amendment. It’s a lengthy process with countless hurdles along the way, not to mention one carrying profound implications in changing an amendment that granted the first steps toward equal rights and dignity for freed slaves.
Now the idea is going mainstream.
Calls to end so-called “birthright citizenship” blew up within hours after Trump released his first detailed policy proposal since spouting blanket accusations about drug dealers and rapists coming to the U.S. from Mexico. Candidates who had previously supported banning automatic citizenship to any person born in the U.S. clamored to prove they came up with the idea first. Others are now being pressed to publicly address an issue traditionally left in the fringe.
Since the end of the Civil War, anyone born on U.S. soil has been granted full rights and formal recognition as American citizens. It has been a constitutional right for generations, reinforcing our nation’s legacy as one founded by immigrants and solidifying immigration as a key component of the American Dream.
What Trump is proposing is somewhat remarkable. Experts widely believe that eliminating birthright citizenship would require, at least to some degree, changing the Constitution. Two-thirds of both houses of Congress would need to sign onto the plan. Then three-fourths of state legislatures would need to ratify changes to the 14th Amendment. It’s a lengthy process with countless hurdles along the way, not to mention one carrying profound implications in changing an amendment that granted the first steps toward equal rights and dignity for freed slaves.
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/gop-candidates-rethinking-constitution-end-birthright-citizenship
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that according to some corporatist judges were provided through the 14th amendment! 
http://www.amendmentgazette.com/are-corporations-people/
