the 14th amendment does. The 14th Amendment did not give African's [born on the land mass called North America] citizenship because it did not legally give the Africans the freedom to choose whether or not they wanted to accept the status of "Person" under the 14th amendment, or return to there home-land after compensation for there forced labor. The term black American is a insult to conscious African's who realize that a nation of people can not be codified as a color. To accept the term Black means that a people have cut-off there connection to there African past and ancestors. To be more technical the Constitution for the United States is legally a dysfunctional compact, treaty, contract which never included the people who assume that they are parties to it. Remember the phrase: "We bestow this to ourselves and our Posterity", Posterity legally means direct descendants only. Until African's [ born on the land mass called North America] create a compact, treaty, or constitution with the parties of interest who created that document called the Constitution for the United States, citizenship for African's [born on the land mass called North America] will remain a figment of the imagination for an entire people called Africans [born on the land mass called North America]. Additionally, the first 8 Presidents under the Constitution for The United States were british subjects, and subjects cannot create, enforce, or make party of anyone to treaties, compacts or contracts. I suggest that all concerned parties remove there emotional thoughts about the Constitution and read it true for the highly technical document that it is. More to come.....
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During the US Civil War, President Lincoln suspended many freedoms that were guaranteed in the Bill of Rights. Habeas Corpus as example was suspended. Suspected supporters of the Confederacy were denied due process. Lincoln's defence of this was that in an emergency, certain civil rights guaranteed in the Bill of Rights had to be suspended in the interest of preserving the Union.
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Any nation that is at odds with the US, "might" cause a man to lose his citizenship if he joined a foreign military. When using the term "American", Canadians consider themselves to be (North) Americans.
American Indians gained citizenship with an act in 1924 in large part from their contributions during WWI.