Question

Read this excerpt from an amendment to the US Constitution.

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States.
–Constitution of the United States

This excerpt from a constitutional amendment explains

A:residency in the United States.
B:citizenship of the United States.
C:immigration to the United States.
D:law enforcement in the United States.

Answer 1

A constitutional amendment is a modification of the constitution of a polity, organization or other type of entity. Amendments are often interwoven into the relevant sections of an existing constitution, directly altering the text

Answer 2

Answer:

This excerpt from a constitutional amendment explains the citizenship of the United States. (Option B).

Explanation:

• The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which was ratified on July 9, 1868, contains the following opening sentence, known as the Citizenship Clause:
• All people who are subject to the jurisdiction of the United States and who were born or naturalized there are citizens of both the nation and the state in which they currently reside.
• The founding United States already referred to the ideas of state and national citizenship.
• In 1789, a constitution was adopted, but the specifics were not clear.
• According to the various applicable state and federal laws and court rulings, only some people who were born or naturalized in the United States and subject to its jurisdiction were citizens of both the United States and the state in which they lived before the Civil War.

Hence, the given excerpt tells about the citizenship of USA.

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