Politics exam two study guide
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- citizen
- full participant; highest and most common form of nationality; give and take relationship
- jus soli
- law of soil, right to be a citizen of the place you were physically born in
- alien
- any national outside own country, but is still a national; protected by international law- do unto others as you would have them do unto you
- subject
- partial (one way) relationship with sovereign state; you own government, government doesnt owe you
- naturalization
- apply for citizenship
- denizen
- partial relationship with sovereign state; someone who resides in the state, but has no legal obligation; individual doesnt owe government anything, but government owes you everything
- stateless person
- those who have no country when their country is gone
- statutory law-requirements
- limites the number of people from other countries (blatant racism)
- birth
- right to citizenship of country you are born in
- special act of congress
- important enough but do not have to wait as long
- jus sanguini
- law of blood, right to be citizen where your parents were born