[warchild9]

"Citizenship" doesn't have to be enforced at gunpoint. The state of being a "subject" does.

[republicanwizard]

Well, Southerners evidently felt that a person's lack of citizenship, I mean being a slave, could be defended at gunpoint. So why not the acquisition or maintenance of citizenship?

[Question_Assumptions]

"Citizenship" doesn't have to be enforced at gunpoint. The state of being a "subject" does.

Unlike "subjects", Americans are free to leave whenever they want. What's stopping you?