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rights of citizenship

NOUN
civil rights
Synonyms
STRONGEST
freedom freedom of religion freedom of speech human rights
WEAK
God-given rights civil liberties constitutional rights freedoms freedoms of citizens legal rights natural rights rights unalienable rights
NOUN
human rights
Synonyms
STRONGEST
civil rights
WEAK
civil liberties constitutional rights natural rights unalienable rights

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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

In 2020, then-Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam granted Falls clemency, restoring his full rights of citizenship.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 29, 2023

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

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

Severo del Valle was obliged to use all his legal ingenuity to bring his brother-in-law back to life and the full rights of citizenship.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

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