birthright

As the court in Barbara explained, birthright citizenship launches a reciprocal relationship between a person and the sovereign.

From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026

The US and Canada are the only two countries considered "developed" nations by the International Monetary Fund that grant mostly unrestricted birthright citizenship.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026

The husband complained that “so many of the amenities that seemed almost a birthright when he was growing up now appear to be out of reach.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

St John’s, the wealthy college Cambridge students love to hate and last year’s victors, had come to regard headships as its birthright.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

Chief Joyi’s war stories and his indictment of the British made me feel angry and cheated, as though I had already been robbed of my own birthright.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

"We were all aware that we weren't being knighted or accepting a peerage. We all knew that the right we stood to gain was fairly inconsequential as inherited birthrights go."

From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026

If birthrights actually existed, women might well feel that a lot of power is due to them.

From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2024

Johnson and Clinton had no political birthrights but set out from young ages to reach the nation’s highest office.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 23, 2023

The dividing line traced by roadblocks also is tugging on sensitivities about birthrights and inequities, as Native American visitors worry about the social stigma of being locked out because of the contagion.

From Washington Times ● May 8, 2020

They came muttering some wild jargon about "bulwarks," "bulkheads," "cofferdams," "safeguards," "noble charters," "shields," and "paladiums," "great and glorious birthrights," and other unintelligible gibberish.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Herman Melville