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  1. Mar 2022
    1. Give a new reason  Sometimes we may agree with an argument’s claim, but for a different reason.  In that case, we can make an original contribution just by pointing out the alternate reason.  In other cases, we might just want to add one or more reasons to the list already covered by the argument. Maybe we are aware of evidence from another reading or from our own experience, or maybe we see a whole different line of reasoning which also leads us to the same conclusion.  For example, we noted in Section 4.4 that in the argument below, the reason was the same as the claim, so the claim had no support at all (a fallacy called circular reasoning). Anyone born in the United States has a right to citizenship because citizenship here depends on birth, not ethnicity or family history of immigration. As a response to that argument, we could suggest a better reason for the same claim: Anyone born in the United States has a right to citizenship because the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution guarantees birthright citizenship.

      Even foreign immigrants in the US can become American citizens themselves later.