Courts have gone off the map: the geographic scope of the citizenship clause

Despite the fact that where the United States ends and another sovereign begins is a serious constitutional issue and has obvious implications for the American immigration system, the Supreme Court this past term denied certiorari on this question.8 This Note will argue that, from an originalist, historical perspective, all of the recent federal appellate cases interpreting the phrase "in the United States" for purposes of the Fourteenth Amendment have been incorrectly decided, and that if one wishes to stay true to the framers' intent, the correct interpretation of that phrase is "in the dominion of the United States." [...]Part III will analyze recent federal appellate decisions that have interpreted the phrase "in the United States" and argue that those cases have been incorrectly decided from an originalist, historical perspective.