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8 U.S.C. ch. 12, subch. III § 1401b. The Indian Citizenship Act of 1924, (43 Stat. 253, enacted June 2, 1924) was an Act of the United States Congress that imposed U.S. citizenship on the indigenous peoples of the United States. While the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution defines a citizen as any persons born in the United ...
Citizenship Clause. 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.
t. e. European Union citizenship is afforded to all nationals of member states of the European Union (EU). It was formally created with the adoption of the 1992 Maastricht Treaty, at the same time as the creation of the EU. EU citizenship is additional to, as it does not replace, national citizenship. [1] [2] It affords EU citizens with rights ...
Citizenship is focused on the internal political life of the state and nationality is the dimension of state membership in international law. [8] Article 15 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that everyone has the right to nationality. [9] As such nationality in international law can be called and understood as citizenship, [9 ...
Solon (in 594 BC), Cleisthenes (in 508–07 BC), and Ephialtes (in 462 BC) contributed to the development of Athenian democracy. Cleisthenes broke up the unlimited power of the nobility by organizing citizens into ten groups based on where they lived, rather than on their wealth. [5]
Tiếng gọi thanh niên, or Thanh niên hành khúc ( Saigon: [tʰan niəŋ hân xúk], "March of the Youths"), and originally the March of the Students ( Vietnamese: Sinh Viên Hành Khúc, French: La Marche des Étudiants ), is a famous song of the musician Lưu Hữu Phước . Its lyrics were modified to make the anthem of State of ...
The Presidential Citizens Medal is an award bestowed by the president of the United States. It is the second-highest civilian award in the United States and is second only to the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Established by executive order on November 13, 1969, by President Richard Nixon, it recognizes an individual "who has performed ...
t. e. United States citizenship can be acquired by birthright in two situations: by virtue of the person's birth within United States territory or because one or both of their parents was a U.S. citizen at the time of the person's birth. Birthright citizenship contrasts with citizenship acquired in other ways, for example by naturalization.