Jus Soli Nation to Jus Soli Evasion: International Lawyers for White Supremacy and the Road through Wong Kim Ark
By Sam Erman and Nathan Perl-Rosenthal. In an effort to dismantle the Citizenship Clause and the U.S.’s traditional recognition of “jus soli,” racist opponents to the Fourteenth Amendment set out to establish a practice of “jus sanguinis” with a weaponization of international law. These attempts backfired, and “country by birth” prevailed and more solidly reaffirmed as the Citizenship Clause.