fourteenth amendment – Douglas V. Gibbs

Representative Luna’s Request Reflects Founding Fathers’ Fears of Split Allegiance

By Douglas V. Gibbs Emer de Vattel, writing in 1758, defined “the natives, or natural-born citizens” as “those born in...

By Douglas V. Gibbs In Article I of the U.S. Constitution, and again in the Fourteenth Amendment, when the document...

By Douglas V. Gibbs (Summary of a chapter in my latest book: The Constitutional Presidency of Donald J. Trump) The...

By Douglas V. Gibbs “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are…......

By Douglas V. Gibbs With the emergence of foreign‑born members of Congress advocating policies viewed by many native‑born Americans as...

By Douglas V. Gibbs In 1812 the term “Gerrymander” originated when Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry approved a redistricting plan to...

A reader asked: I would like to have information on where to find in the constitution that dual citizenship is...

By Douglas V. Gibbs President Donald Trump sat in for a little over an hour as U.S. Supreme Court justices...

By Douglas V. Gibbs Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) has decided to push a countrywide constitutional carry firearms bill which would...

By Douglas V. Gibbs Little v. Hecox, a case pitting a transgender Boise State University student against an Idaho law...