Hans von Spakovsky on Life, Liberty and Levin. “What they should do if they’re going to apply the 14th Amendment, that’s the one that has the Citizenship Clause, if they actually do what the clause says and what the original sponsors intended it to do, they’re going to say no, we do not have birthright citizenship in United States. That was certainly the understanding for the first 70 or 80 years that the law was in place.”