Our political class is aflame, and our lawyer-ocracy is up in arms over President Trump's executive order limiting the scope of "birthright" (or "soil-based") citizenship to children of permanent legal residents. Children born to tourists, students from other countries, and others here on a short-term basis, plus people here illegally, are no longer to be regarded as citizens of the United States merely because their mothers happened to be on American soil when they were born.
Is that constitutional? Does the U.S. Constitution demand that virtually everyone born on our soil (basically everyone except for the children of diplomats who, by convention, are under their home country's laws) be considered a citizen by birth?
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