[MissAmericanPie]

Kinda like granting illegals citizenship if they serve in the military? Hard to get homegrown boys to fight their own families and countrymen. Illegals don't suffer those kinds of hangups.

[bobjam]

Up until Gaius Marius around 100 BC, one not only had to be a Roman citizen, but a landowner as well in order to serve in the army. The concept was that if one did not own a piece of the state, then he had no real vested interest in protecting the state.