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America has changed significantly since that time for the better much better.

The fourteenth amendment in particular changed the US in fundamental ways (one of which was birthright citizenship).

> we were a big open country with no welfare state

One of the countless ways we are better country today then in the past. No social security, no Medicare

> But it’s a retcon.

It's an evolution and a vast improvement



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