What I can say unequivocally is that the United States is the only place that does it the way it's done here. Okay. So if you would interpret it the way some people want it interpreted, you would say The United States would be a clear outlier in the globe [if birthright citizenship is interpreted as some propose]. Yes. And would they have been a clear outlier in 1866? Well, yes, because at that point, most other countries in the world were monarchies, and the monarch considered you to be something akin to property owing permanent allegiance. (01:31–01:41)
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