Super-interesting essay by one of my favorite legal historians about the 1872 story of a child born to enemy alien parents deemed a US citizen, even though the child left the US almost immediately. #ImagineIfOriginalismAppliedConsistently.
Birthright Citizenship of Child Born to Enemy Alien Visitors – Washington University Law Review
This is the story of Mogridge v. United States, in which the United States asserted, and a multinational commission held, that a child born in Pennsylvania to enemy alien visitors was a U.S. citizen…
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August 19, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Super-interesting essay by one of my favorite legal historians about the 1872 story of a child born to enemy alien parents deemed a US citizen, even though the child left the US almost immediately. #ImagineIfOriginalismAppliedConsistently.