Birth-Right Citizenship as a Second-Best Policy

The piece takes a libertarian position opposing Trump's birthright citizenship restrictions while simultaneously critiquing birthright citizenship itself as insufficiently libertarian. Language is measured and philosophical rather than charged, centering the author's principled objection to restriction of movement based on 'morally arbitrary circumstances of birth.' The framing accepts the legitimacy of constitutional debate while reframing it through a universal-liberty lens rather than progressive or conservative camps, creating intellectual distance from both Trump opponents and birthright

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• This article does not address empirical data on economic or social outcomes under different citizenship regimes
• This article does not engage with counterarguments about national sovereignty or the relationship between citizenship and political community
• This article does not discuss how other democracies structure citizenship rights or movement permissions