The birth date of citizenship of the United States is July 4th, 1776. It predates all other founding documents. And regardless of race, gender, or disability the constitutional definition of a citizen should have the same civil and political rights today as it did when we ratified the U.S. Constitution in 1789. A citizen is more than just a mere person under the 14th Amendment. A citizen is the 4th branch of government under Article 4 as it has been correctly expanded under the 13th, 14th, 15th, and 19th Amendments. Temporary delusions, prejudices, excitements, and objects have irresistible influence in mere questions of policy. And the policy of one age may ill suit the wishes or the policy of another. The constitution is not subject to such fluctuations. It is to have a fixed, uniform, permanent construction. It should be, so far at least as human infirmity will allow, not dependent upon the passions or parties of particular times, but the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever. --Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, 1833
Posted on: Tue, 03 Dec 2013 12:16:28 +0000
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