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Second Amendment Roundup: The Citizenship Clause Implicates the Second Amendment.

Aliens here unlawfully or on a nonimmigrant visa are prohibited from possession of firearms.

Reason · Mar 30

Second Amendment Roundup: Arms and the Citizenship Issue

Illegal aliens are prohibited from possession of firearms.

Reason · Dec 9, 2025

The Domicile Dead-End

Evan Bernick's third in a series of guest-blogging posts on birthright citizenship.

Reason · Apr 3, 2025

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Griffin's Case (1869) and The Enforcement Act of 1870

Justice Kavanaugh was right. Chief Justice Chase's decision in Griffin's Case "forms the backdrop against which Congress" legislated The Enforcement Act of 1870.

Reason · Feb 19, 2024

The Use and Misuse of Section Three's "Legislative History": Part II

[Note: This is the sixth in a series of essays responding to objections that have been made to enforcing Section Three of the Constitution. The first five essays can be found here, here, here, here, and here.] Earlier today we began discussing the use and misuse of constitutional legislative history…

Reason · Feb 6, 2024

Section Three and the "First Insurrection" … That Wasn't

[Prof. Kurt Lash (Richmond), who is a leading legal historian of the Fourteenth Amendment, was kind enough to pass along this response to an amicus brief by Profs. Akhil Reed Amar (Yale) and Vikram David Amar (Illinois) in Trump v. Anderson, and I'm delighted to have it published here. As…

Reason · Jan 29, 2024

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