What is the criteria to establish the right to vote, anyway?
Is it your age? Place of residence? Country of birth? Payment of taxes? Evidence of intellectual attainment? Apparently, by legislation, the definition of "citizen" can be darned near anything you want it to be.
The history of enfranchisement in this country has pretty much been REMOVING restrictions on the right to vote, and extending it to those who have never had it before. At one time, you know, only white males that had attained the age of 21, and owned property, were given the vote. Then the property requirement was taken away. Then the racial requirement was dropped. Then the literacy requirement was removed. Then the requirement that payment of taxes must be current was legislated out of existence. Even gender was made not relevant, likewise the requirement of attaining 21 years of age.
The US code does not even define the citizenship of any individual. Citizenship is determined and recognized by the state in which you live. If you are a citizen of any of the individual States, you are a United States citizen.
"If you are a citizen of any of the individual States, you are a United States citizen."
"The US code does not even define the citizenship of any individual. Citizenship is determined and recognized by the state in which you live. If you are a citizen of any of the individual States, you are a United States citizen.
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Actually, the 14th Amendment of the Constitution makes it pretty clear who is a citizen of the United States (first) and of the various States (second).
You are incorrect.
Amendment 14
Section 1: Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.