Read all about it No fan of illegal immigration, friends will be surprised to hear me say that children born on US soil should maintain their rights as US citizens. I'm also no fan of the old slippery slope defense, you know, when one says if you change this thing that really should be changed, well, then it's just a short pebble skip to many more changes that shouldn't be changed so you shouldn't change the thing that should change because it makes it too easy to then change the things that shouldn't be changed. Follow? (You're surpirsed to hear nobody ever suggested I write a legal textbook...) But it does seem clear if you alter the 14th ammendment to eliminate the chance for kids born here to be US citizens, well, there's no telling what a future corrupt government could do with the concept of citizenship. This issue shows why the constitution should not be a living document, and here's where it could bite liberal idealogies in the ass. If you interpret the constitution as a living document, and mold it to solve or prevent the problems of the current day, this is what you get; conservative whackadoos trying to solve the problem of illegal immigration with a current-day interpretation of the 14th ammendment. You solve illegal immigration by stopping it, not by reinterpreting the constitution and revoking rights guaranteed by it.