Excerpt from Societal and Legal Issues Surrounding Children Born in the United States to Illegal Alien Parents: Joint Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims and the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, First Session Others will argue today that the 14th amendment's grant of birthright citizenship was meant to apply to all persons except cer tain native Americans and the children of diplomats. They will argue that their position was reinforced by the Supreme Court's 1897 ruling in United States v. Wong Kim Ark. If they are correct, then a constitutional amendment would be required to modify birthright citizenship. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.