United States v. Wong Kim Ark is an 1898 United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that virtually everyone born in the United States is a U.S. citizen. This decision established an important precedent in its interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Wong Kim Ark, who was born in San Francisco to Chinese parents around 1871, had been denied re-entry to the U.S. after a trip abroad, under a law restricting Chinese immigration. He challenged the government's refusal to recognize his citizenship, and the Supreme Court ruled that the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment encompassed essentially everyone born in the U.S.—even children of foreigners. Attempts have been made in Congress to restrict birthright citizenship, either via statutory redefinition of the term jurisdiction or by overriding both the Wong Kim Ark ruling and the Citizenship Clause itself through an amendment to the Constitution, but no such proposal has been enacted.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
202 BC:
Proconsul Scipio of the Roman Republic defeated Hannibal and the Carthaginians in the Battle of Zama, concluding the Second Punic War. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Zama
1864:
American Civil War: Despite incurring nearly twice as many casualties as the Confederates, the Union Army emerged victorious in the Battle of Cedar Creek. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cedar_Creek
1900:
German physicist Max Planck produced his law of black body emission, a pioneer result of modern physics and quantum theory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_law
1943:
Streptomycin (pictured), the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, was first isolated by researchers at Rutgers University. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streptomycin
1987:
Iran–Iraq War: United States Navy forces destroyed two Iranian oil platforms in the Persian Gulf in response to an Iranian missile attack on a Kuwaiti oil tanker. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Nimble_Archer
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
insensate: 1. Having no sensation or consciousness; unconscious; inanimate. 2. Senseless; foolish; irrational. 3. Unfeeling, heartless, cruel, insensitive. 4. (medicine, physiology) Not responsive to sensory stimuli. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/insensate
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