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To: gogogodzilla

Because then I’d be all for forcing “federal service” to the state in order to get citizenship?

puh-leeze


23 posted on 04/09/2010 7:24:09 PM PDT by GeronL (There is only a "Happily ever after" for you if you're the one writing your own script)
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To: GeronL

As I recall from the book (it’s been thirty or so years), the term ‘citizenship’ being used here really stands for ‘the franchise.’

Did not the inhabitants of the country who chose not to serve nevertheless enjoy all the other rights and protections of citizenship, the one exception being the franchise?


35 posted on 04/09/2010 7:53:24 PM PDT by Erasmus (The Last of the Bohicans)
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To: GeronL

No, because you’d realize that the book stated that if you wanted the right to vote and run for office, you had to show that you believed in and supported your nation - through ‘federal service’.

Citizenship was automatic, voting was not.


60 posted on 04/09/2010 11:30:16 PM PDT by gogogodzilla (Live free or die!)
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