It is that a citizen of the United States can. of his own volition. become a. citizen of any State of the Union by bona fide residence therein. with the same rights as other citizens of that State. To these may be added the rights secured by the thirteenth and fifteenth articles of amendment and by the other clauses of the fourteenth next to be considered. It has been held that the admission of a State. without other or special designation. effected a collective naturalization. It is not perceived why the absorption of a people and a territory into the permanent sovereign dominion does not also effect a collective naturalization. its it destroys their former nationality and creates a new nationality. In the former case all the rights of citizenship. including the political franchises. are conferred or confirmed. In the latter case all the rights of citizenship are conferred. save the political franchises. which are withheld in trust and exercised by the Congress until such time as the Territorial inhabitants are fitted to enjoy and receive them.
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