Liberty Lesson – Birthright Citizenship – Sharonville-08/08/2026, Springboro-08/22/2026
What Does the Constitution Actually Say About Birthright Citizenship?
What happens next?
Once again, the Supreme Court has handed down an opinion, this one on birthright citizenship, that deserves a closer look. The Court says the Fourteenth Amendment guarantees citizenship to nearly anyone born on American soil. But that conclusion rests on a reading of the Citizenship Clause that is far less settled than the majority suggests.
That interpretation should not be accepted as obvious simply because the Court has declared it so.
Read the text of the Fourteenth Amendment. Read Vattel’s Law of Nations. Read the congressional debates surrounding the amendment—especially the discussion of the phrase “subject to the jurisdiction thereof.” Taken together, those sources raise a serious question: did the amendment truly grant automatic U.S. citizenship to every person born within the nation’s borders, regardless of the parents’ allegiance, legal status, or relationship to the United States? That is the question the Court too quickly brushed aside.
Join Building Blocks for Liberty as we examine these questions at their source—not through modern assumptions, but through the words of the Founders and the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment themselves. We will let those who shaped the nation, and those who wrote the amendment, explain what they meant and why it matters today.
August 8th at
Freedom Church
3755 Cornell Road
Cincinnati, OH 45241
Saturday, 08/08/2026
9:30 am to 11:30 am
August 22nd at the
Springboro Public Library
Meeting Room
125 Park Lane
Springboro, OH 45066
Saturday, 08/22/2026
9:30 am to 11:30 am
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