A nation’s first duty is its own self‑preservation. That is what sovereignty really means: the right, and the will, to continue to exist as a coherent political order, to govern one’s own destiny rather than have it dictated by outside forces or by the inertia of one’s own legal abstractions. When a nation forgets this, when it begins to treat its survival as just one value among many, negotiable and revisable, it is half-conquered. Enemies need not invade; they need only wait.
The Supreme Court’s recent decision on birthright citizenship stands as a civilizational event. It takes an already reckless interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment and elevates it into a suicide pact: the claim that the mere fact of birth on American soil, even under increasingly orchestrated conditions, constitutes an automatic, unqualified entitlement to citizenship. Stripped of euphemism and legal piety, the Court has announced that the American people no longer possess the practical power to decide who joins them. The borders become an administrative fiction. Popular consent is presumed in perpetuity.
