Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to require that certain individuals are natural born citizens.
Key claim: A proposed constitutional amendment (HJRES204) would require that certain individuals are natural born citizens of the United States.
Abstract
(HJRES204 · 119th Congress) Latest action (2026-07-21): Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Why this matters
A constitutional amendment locking in a natural-born-citizen requirement for certain roles would move the birthright-citizenship and eligibility debate from statutory/executive terrain into the amendment process, raising the bar to change and creating durable consequences for naturalized citizens and children of non-citizen parents. Even at the introduction stage, the proposal signals a strategy of embedding contested citizenship definitions into the Constitution itself, complementing parallel statutory (HR569), executive (EO 14160), and territorial (HR9724) efforts. Its practical effect depends heavily on which offices or rights the amendment would gate on natural-born status.