Birthright Citizenship and the Fourteenth Amendment

April 19, 2011
Does the Fourteenth Amendment grant citizenship to all those born on American soil? Two legal experts debate the issue.
	Edward J. Erler			Garrett Epps
	Claremont Institute			University of Baltimore
	Edward J. Erler is professor of political science at California State University, San Bernardino, and a senior fellow of the Claremont Institute. He is the co-author of The Founders on Citizenship and Immigration.			Garrett Epps is professor of law at the University of Baltimore and author of Democracy Reborn: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Fight for Equal Rights in Post-Civil War America (2006), a finalist for the American Bar Association