{"id":518,"date":"2010-10-13T19:29:56","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T19:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-404pinsker\/?p=518"},"modified":"2010-10-13T19:29:56","modified_gmt":"2010-10-13T19:29:56","slug":"rotundo-on-birthright-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-404pinsker\/2010\/10\/13\/rotundo-on-birthright-citizenship\/","title":{"rendered":"Rotundo on Birthright Citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Law professor Ronald Rotunda offers an especially clear argument in favor of birthright citizenship in his <em>Chicago Tribune<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/proquest.umi.com\/pqdweb?index=11&amp;did=2138975631&amp;SrchMode=1&amp;sid=4&amp;Fmt=3&amp;VInst=PROD&amp;VType=PQD&amp;RQT=309&amp;VName=PQD&amp;TS=1286997710&amp;clientId=4534\" target=\"_blank\">op-ed<\/a> from September 16, 2010 (&#8220;Birthright Citizenship Benefits the Country&#8221;).\u00a0 In this short piece, Rotunda argues that allowing practically anyone born in the U.S. to achieve instant citizenship (&#8220;birthright citizenship&#8221;) is &#8220;one of our strengths, not a weakness.&#8221;\u00a0 He rejects recent calls for revising the current understanding of Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment either by statute or amendment, using examples from history and personal experience and by claiming that the logic of birthright citizenship provides an &#8220;incentive&#8221; for good behavior.\u00a0 Not everyone will agree with Rotunda, but he spells out the pro-birthright position with clarity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Law professor Ronald Rotunda offers an especially clear argument in favor of birthright citizenship in his Chicago Tribune op-ed from September 16, 2010 (&#8220;Birthright Citizenship Benefits the Country&#8221;).\u00a0 In this short piece, Rotunda argues that allowing practically anyone born in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-404pinsker\/2010\/10\/13\/rotundo-on-birthright-citizenship\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12442],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-op-eds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-404pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-404pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-404pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-404pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-404pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-404pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-404pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-404pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-404pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}