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Alien
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A person who lives in a country where he or she is not a citizen.
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Resident Alien
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A person from a foreign nation who has established permanent residence in the US
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Non-resident Alien
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A person from a foreign country who expects to stay in the United States for a short, specified period of time
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Enemy Alien
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A person living in the US who is a citizen of a nation with which the US is at war.
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Refugees
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People fleeing their nation to escape persection or danger.
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Illegal Alien
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A person who comes to the US without a legal permit
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Amnesty
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Genral pardon the Governor offers to illigal aliens
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Private Law
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A law that applies to a particlar person
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Naturalization
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The legal process by which a person is granted the rights ans privileges of a citizen.
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Dred Scott
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Enslaved African American in 1857 who sued his slaveholder's widow for his freedom, claiming that his earlier residence in a free state and a free territory made him free. He was not allowed citizenship. This led to the Civil War.
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14th Amendment
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Overruled the Dred Scott decision 1868. It clearly established what constitutes citizenship at both the national and state levels of government.
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Jus Soli
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Latin Phrase meaning "law of the soil" which grants citizenship to nearly all people born in US or American territories
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Jus Sanguinis
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"law of blood" is the birth to an American parent or parents called automatic citizenship
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Collective Naturalization
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Whole group of people living in the same geographic area become American citizens through an act of Congress
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Expatriation
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Giving up one's citizenship by leaving one's native country to live in a foreign country.
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