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This is On Point. I'm Magna Chakra-Bardi, and Heather Cox Richardson is with us in the studio today.

She's author of Letters from an American, the hugely popular newsletter and substack.

She's also the author of many books, including her latest, which is Democracy Awakening, Notes on the State of America.

She's also a professor of history at Boston College. Professor Richardson, welcome back to one point.

It's always a pleasure.

Okay, so I'm going to start with something a little bit different today. Since you are in the studio here with me, I've got a little bit of a

highlighted text here on my screen. I'm going to turn the screen towards you. Can you just like read that

sentence? All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction

thereof are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.

So what's that? What is that?

That is the beginning of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified 1868.

I've been told it's your favorite amendment.

It is. Everybody has a favorite amendment. That happens to be mine.

So this is the first sentence of the first section of the 14th Amendment,

which really means something significant. Is there any way, any possible way you think,

to interpret that language other than you're born here, your citizen here? No, no, there really isn't. And I could tell you

how people get around that by trying to create a different pathway around it. But in order really

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