[Throughline] Birthright Citizenship and the Fourteenth Amendment

To understand why an American constitutional amendment ratified in 1868 turns on the phrase "subject to the jurisdiction thereof," one has to travel back more than two and a half centuries earlier, to a property dispute…

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