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To: semimojo

On the other hand...would invading/occupying armies be entitled to representation?


25 posted on 05/23/2018 9:20:52 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: lepton
On the other hand...would invading/occupying armies be entitled to representation?

Good question, especially since they guarded against that in the birthright citizenship clause in Section 1 by including the "subject to the jurisdiction" language.

Makes you wonder why the purposely left that out of the representation provisions.

26 posted on 05/23/2018 3:52:13 PM PDT by semimojo
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