rights of citizenship
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Puerto Ricans exist in what we describe as the “alien-citizen paradox”: They are U.S. citizens, but only those residing in the mainland enjoy all the rights of citizenship.
From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2025
This story showed that a person did not have to be born a Roman to receive the rights of citizenship.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
The North Carolina Constitution forbids a person convicted of a felony from voting “unless that person shall be first restored to the rights of citizenship in the manner prescribed by law.”
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 27, 2021
Last month, Ms. Haaland approved a new Constitution for the Cherokee Nation that explicitly grants full rights of citizenship to the Cherokee Freedmen, people formerly enslaved by Cherokee tribal citizens.
From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2021
Many who had, however, returned to America feeling that they had earned the full rights of citizenship.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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