The citizenship clause of the fourteenth amendment says a naturalized person must have the same rights to become a citizen as someone born in another country. must have the same rights to become a citizen as someone born in the us. must have been born in the united states, not in another country. must have been born in a country other than the united states.

The citizenship clause of the fourteenth amendment says a naturalized person must have the same rights to become a citizen as someone born in the U.S. It is clearly stated in section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment.

EXPLANATION:

All the complete sections of the Fourteenth Amendment can be seen below:

•Section 1

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

•Section 2

Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.

•Section 3

No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

•Section 4

The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations, and claims shall be held illegal and void.

•Section 5

The congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.

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•The citizenship clause of the Fourteenth Amendment says a naturalized person is?

Keywords: Fourteenth Amendment, Naturalized person

Subject  : Social Studies

Class  : 10-12

Sub-Chapter: Civic Studies

All the persons who are born or naturalized in the USA are subjected to the jurisdiction and are citizens of the USA and also the state where they reside.  

Further Explanation:

The 14th amendment was adopted on 9 July 1868. All the persons those who are born a naturalized in the USA are subjected to the jurisdiction and a citizen of the USA and also the state where they reside. This clause was changed by the US Supreme Court in Dred Scott versus Stanford decision that declared African Americans are not citizens of the USA and enjoy the immunities of citizenship. The state citizenship and national citizenship are mentioned in the USA Constitution that was adopted in 1789. The civil rights act passed in 1866 grants USA citizenship to persons born in the USA and not subjected to any foreign power. It is mentioned in section 1, clause one of the 14th amendment. People also can get Citizenship of USA by naturalization that is mentioned in the citizenship clause. It is a process through which immigrants are granted US citizenship. This is mentioned in article 1, section 8, Clause 8 of the USA Constitution. The amendment does not provide any clause for revocation of the USA citizenship

Learn More:

1.How did California differ from the United States in terms of interactions between whites and natives?

2.Under the articles of confederation, if Virginia had ten thousand citizens and Delaware had five thousand citizens, how many votes would each state have in the legislature?

Answer Details:

Grade: High School

Chapter: USA Citizenship Clause

Subject: Social Science

Keywords:

9 July 1868, Dred Scott versus Stanford decision, civil rights act, naturalization.

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