President Trump’s announcement Tuesday that he is preparing an executive order to end birthright citizenship has the left and even some conservatives in an uproar. But the president is correct when he says that the 14th Amendment to the Constitution does not require universal birthright citizenship.
Abraham Lincoln stands not only as America s greatest president but also as its greatest lawyer. At the time of his election to the presidency in 1860 he was the most prominent practicing lawyer in the state of Illinois. As a politician and as president, Lincoln was a profound student of the Constitution and constitutional history. Perhaps most important, Lincoln was America s indispensable teacher of the moral ground of political freedom
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Originalism was supposed to simplify things. Instead of vague and ever-shifting balancing tests based on judges’ impressions of what was good for society, originalism was a return to asking that basic question: What did the words mean to people at the time they were enacted? Don’t like the result? Change the law, don’t pretend it “evolved” through self-interested interpretation.