Word: citizenship
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Powell said his lawyers would argue in federal court that the Constitution sets only three requirements for House membership-age, U.S. citizenship and state residence-and that Powell satisfies all three. But Article 1 of the Constitution makes Congress the judge of the "elections, returns and qualifications of its own members." Thus there is some question whether the courts would want to get involved in a scrap with the House over its own rules-or would be able to enforce a decision...
...thus signaled their unanimous approval of a new law that aims at making the division of Germany a spiritual as well as a physical reality. Into East Germany's law books last week went a statute giving the 17 million people under Ulbricht's rule a new citizenship in "the first peace-loving, democratic, socialist German state...
...those milestones only when they were sanctioned by the Catholic clergy. Under the new bill, the old strictures would fall away. Though Roman Catholicism would remain the state religion, Spain's 30,000 Protestants, 6,000 Jews, and 1,000 Moslems would enjoy the full rights of Spanish citizenship, be allowed to hold public worship services, build churches and temples and identify them publicly for the first time since Franco came to power...
Most of the Asians' ancestors came to Africa as indentured laborers to build railroads for the British. Even though most of them were born and raised in Africa, many have not sought citizenship in their adopted countries-a fact that confirms black suspicions that they contribute only to their own welfare. When little Malawi became independent in 1964, almost every one of the 11,000 Asians sought the protection of a British passport. With unemployment high in most areas, several of the East African countries have taken steps, both official and unofficial, to ease the Asians out of their...
...member Parliament, which has little real power but confers upon those who sit in it great prestige and, it is widely suspected, considerable wealth. One reason for the prestige was that most of the 468,000 persons who live in Kuwait cannot be candidates; barriers to citizenship are high for the thousands of Arabs who have immigrated since the discovery of oil. Among the 27,000 males who are eligible to vote, however, the Amir allowed more opposition to his government's policies than ever before. Most of it was from leftists who object to his aloofness from...