birthright

The husband complained that “so many of the amenities that seemed almost a birthright when he was growing up now appear to be out of reach.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

And I actually don’t leave out the birthright citizenship case, because to understand how bad this term was, you can’t just count up the decisions.

From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026

“When a baby is born on American soil and an American flag flies above, that baby is a birthright citizen, as the Reconstruction Republicans across the land understood,” he wrote in February.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026

Thomas wrote a dissent in the birthright citizenship case, too, but it was more academic, replete with arcane archival material about the history of birthright citizenship and the 14th Amendment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

He was to succeed the regent as chief and had decided to remain in Mqhekezweni and take up his birthright.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

"We were all aware that we weren't being knighted or accepting a peerage. We all knew that the right we stood to gain was fairly inconsequential as inherited birthrights go."

From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026

If birthrights actually existed, women might well feel that a lot of power is due to them.

From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2024

Johnson and Clinton had no political birthrights but set out from young ages to reach the nation’s highest office.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 23, 2023

The dividing line traced by roadblocks also is tugging on sensitivities about birthrights and inequities, as Native American visitors worry about the social stigma of being locked out because of the contagion.

From Washington Times ● May 8, 2020

He had been robbed of his birthright by his own mother and the people of the Blue-grass, and Marjorie's people were now robbing his of their national birthrights as well.

From The Heart of the Hills by Fox, John