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255 Martha S. Jones, Birthright Citizenship

Ben Franklin's World

English - September 10, 2019 05:00 - 58 minutes - 53.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 988 ratings
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Who gets to be a citizen of the United States? How does the United States define who belongs to the nation?

Early Americans asked and grappled with these questions during the earliest days of the early republic.

Martha S. Jones is a Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University and a former public interest litigator. Using details from her book, Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America, Martha joins us to investigate how early Americans thought about citizenship and how they defined who could and couldn’t belong to the United States.

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