Legal Opinion
Miller v. Albright
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 22, 1998No. 96-1060PublishedCited by 229 opinions
1Judgment of the CourtJustice Stevens
There are “two sources of citizenship, and two only: birth and naturalization.” United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U. S. 649, 702 (1898). Within the former category, the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution guarantees that every person “born in the United States, and subject to the *424jurisdiction thereof, becomes at once a citizen of the United States, and needs no naturalization.” 169 U. S., at 702. Persons not born in the United States acquire citizenship by birth only as provided by Acts of Congress. Id., at 703.
The petitioner in this case challenges the constitutionality of the…
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