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> It uses the term of "citizen" but does not specify a requirement or legal definition.

Then we agree; it very much includes the concept of citizenship.



Maybe it includes a reference to citizenship but it does not define it as a constitutional concept. It also certainly doesn't make it a requirement of the constitution, as sitting US politicians or the OP are currently arguing.

If this is what you are defending than we couldn't disagree more.


It doesn't define a lot of things; treason's the only crime defined, for example, but we knew a whole bunch of others existed on day one.

It does clearly imply a difference between "natural-born" citizens and naturalized ones, and that citizens and residents/people/persons aren't the exact same thing.

The choice to use "citizen" in some spots and "person" in many others seems very deliberate.




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