birthright
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Mark Joseph Stern: One really recent and great example of the truth that a longer opinion is not necessarily a better opinion comes in the birthright citizenship case and the set of decisions from that.
From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026
The principle of birthright citizenship, known in legal terms as "jus soli" or "right of the soil", is enshrined in the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
St John’s, the wealthy college Cambridge students love to hate and last year’s victors, had come to regard headships as its birthright.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
In a statement as chilling as it is insulting, Davis suggests that the protesters triggered a “Mother Hen” instinct that led the justice to rule against the administration on the birthright citizenship case.
From Slate ● Jul. 15, 2026
But the unconscious mastery of language that is our birthright as humans is not enough to allow us to write good sentences.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
"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
Now is the time to fulfill the birthrights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness called for in the Declaration of Independence.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 2, 2020
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
We have engaged in this kingdom and ventured our lives, and it was all for this: to recover our birthrights and privileges as Englishmen; and by the arguments urged, there are none.
From The Digger Movement in the Days of the Commonwealth As Revealed in the Writings of Gerrard Winstanley, the Digger, Mystic and Rationalist, Communist and Social Reformer by Lewis Henry Berens
