Only for Africans brought here against their will. Everyone else already had that something.
"It will require a constitutional amendment to change it."
Negative.
Section 5.
The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
Section 5.
The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
That is also effectively impossible.
"We made common law birthright citizenship a constitutional right with 14A."Only for Africans brought here against their will. Everyone else already had that something.
14A says "All Persons...." It does not say, "All Africans...." It does not refer to children brought here against their will, but to children born here.
"It will require a constitutional amendment to change it."Negative.
Section 5.
The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
Section 5 empowers the Congress to enforce the provisions of 14A as written, not to change or amend anything. The text states, "All persons born... in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States...."