USA CITIZENSHIP TEST
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Law of Blood, Law of Soil, and Selective Service
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Law of Mud, Law of Genetics, and Selective Service
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Law of Blood, Law of Land, Naturalization
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Law of Blood, Law of Soil, and Naturalization
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Detailed explanation-1: -In the U.S., children obtain their citizenship at birth through the legal principle of jus soli (“right of the soil”)-that is, being born on U.S. soil-or jus sanguinis ("right of blood”)-that is, being born to parents who are United States citizens.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment must be interpreted in light of English common law, and thus it grants U.S. citizenship to almost all children born to alien parents on American soil, with only a limited set of exceptions.
Detailed explanation-3: -Law of Blood person’s birth parents to be a U.S. citizen. In most cases, this means that U.S. citizenship is passed to the child from the natural mother or father. This method of gaining citizenship is called the law of blood.
Detailed explanation-4: -From here Westheimer describes three “types” of citizens: the personally responsible citizen, the participatory citizen, and the social justice-oriented citizen.