A reader asked: I would like to have information on where to find in the constitution that dual citizenship is not accepted or illegal.
How I responded:
The place in the constitution that disallows the United States recognizing dual citizenship is the 14th Amendment, Citizenship Clause. “Subject to the jurisdiction thereof” is language the authors, Senators Trumbull and Howard used meaning “full jurisdiction,” or “full allegiance,” as they testified before Congress while the clause was being debated on the floor. The influence of that language, they explained, was the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which indicated to be a citizen one must not be subject to any foreign power.
Both senators consistently connected jurisdiction with allegiance. Senator Trumbull used the phrase “subject to our jurisdiction” as meaning “owing allegiance solely to the United States” during the Citizenship Clause debate
Four Citations:
Congressional Globe, 39th Congress, 1st Session, page 2891 (1866).
https://restorefirstprinciples.substack.com/p/before-the-supremes-rule-on-birthright
Congressional Globe, 1st Session, 39th Congress, pt. 4, p. 2893.
https://americanmind.org/salvo/judge-ho-original-intent-and-the-citizenship-clause
Added Note:
As the Birthright Citizenship Case works its way to the U.S. Supreme Court, we need to keep in mind what I just provided. A child is unable to decide their own allegiance, so an illegal alien’s child’s allegiance will be based on that of their parents’ allegiance. If they are illegal aliens, they have rejected having any respect for our laws. Because they did not participate in the immigration process to establish legal residency or citizenship in the United States, they remain connected to the country they came from. Therefore, they are not subject to the jurisdiction thereof, and neither are their children even if born on American soil. If the Supreme Court of the United States were to rule in line with the Constitution, they will rule in favor of President Trump’s Executive Order (January 20, 2025, President Trump signed Executive Order 14160, titled “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship”). The purpose of executive orders are to execute federal law, and the federal law Trump’s EO is executing is the Civil Rights Act of 1866, of which is supported by the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment in the United States Constitution which was later ratified in 1868.
