Literal constitutional text can block even the most aggressive populist executive overreach.
While the executive branch successfully consolidates administrative and immigration power elsewhere, literal statutory and structural text in the Constitution acts as an unyielding boundary against unilateral executive overhauls.
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The Supreme Court used clear historical context and the literal wording of the Fourteenth Amendment to strike down an executive order trying to end birthright citizenship.
The literal text of the Fourteenth Amendment served as a definitive judicial shield that defeated the administration's primary immigration agenda.
The Court ruled that the plain text of the Citizenship Clause blocks any attempt by the President to unilaterally redefine birthright status.