Indians and Birthright Citizenship
August 25, 2015
Did the authors of the 14th Amendment intend that all those born in the U.S. should be born citizens except for the children of foreign diplomats? Of course not. Indians—the real native Americans—were not granted citizenship until 1924.
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.

