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  2. Citizenship - Wikipedia

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    Citizenship is a membership and allegiance to a sovereign state. [1] [a]Though citizenship is often conflated with nationality in today's English-speaking world, [3] [4] [5] international law does not usually use the term citizenship to refer to nationality; [6] [7] these two notions are conceptually different dimensions of collective membership.

  3. Citizenship of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Citizenship of the United States [2] [3] is a legal status that entails Americans with specific rights, duties, protections, and benefits in the United States.

  4. Citizenship Clause - Wikipedia

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    The Citizenship Clause is the first sentence of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which was adopted on July 9, 1868, which states: . 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.

  5. Natural-born-citizen clause (United States) - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 7 February 2025. Clause of the US Constitution specifying natural born US citizenship to run for President Status as a natural-born citizen of the United States is one of the eligibility requirements established in the United States Constitution for holding the office of president or vice president. This ...

  6. Birthright citizenship in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Citizenship in the United States is a matter of federal law, governed by the United States Constitution.. Since the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution on July 9, 1868, the citizenship of persons born in the United States has been controlled by its Citizenship Clause, which states: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the ...

  7. United States nationality law - Wikipedia

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    For any child born after November 14, 1986 to a non-US citizen mother and a US citizen the father, the father has to 1) agree to financially support the child, and before the child reaches 18 years of age 2.A) prove in court a biological relationship, or 2.B) formally legitimize the child, or 2.C) officially confirm in a signed and sworn ...

  8. History of citizenship - Wikipedia

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    Ancient Athenian armor from the 6th century BCE called a greave covered a citizen-soldier's knee and lower leg. A hoplite's armor signified its owner's social status as well as his service to the community. (Snodgrass 1967 (1999), 58–59) History of citizenship describes the changing relation between an individual and the state, known as ...

  9. History of laws concerning immigration and naturalization in ...

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    The 1866 Act read, "That all persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States; and such citizens, of every race and color, without regard to any previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude" shall have the same rights "as is ...