citizenship clause

citizenship clause definition - legal

n

The provision in the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution declaring that all persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to its jurisdiction are citizens of the United States and of the state each resides in.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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