Should individual states require citizenship tests and Oaths of Allegiance?

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SERVICE GUARANTEES CITIZENSHIP.

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The military already does this.

That may go against the full faith and credit clause

While technically true, you night want to rewatch it, or better yet, read the book. You’d may get what I was referring to then.

Citizenship is regarded far differently and with different privileges. You also aren’t granted it from birth.

So you want the US to become Switzerland?

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So you want the US to become Switzerland?

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Switzerland is a confederation, which, on the spectrum of sovereignty between national and regional governments, places a higher level of sovereignty with the regional governments compared to federal governments.

So, what you're saying is that, as a federal government, there is a de facto open border policy between state governments? (Honest question. I wasn't a poli-sci major, so I may not know all the technicalities the way some people do.)

Under the Constitution, someone who is a citizen of the United States is, by virtue of that fact alone, a citizen of the state in which he or she resides:

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Amendment XIV
Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.

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Constitution at U.S. Senate website

So the state cannot impose some additional test or requirement--doing so would be pretty clearly unconstitutional.

Now the more interesting / disturbing question will be when some whackadoodle state like the People's Republic of California declares, as a matter of its state constitution and/or state laws, that people who are not citizens of the United States, especially illegal aliens*, are citizens of the state. I'm not sure what the law is on that. I sure hope the answer is that any such provision would be federally unconstitutional.

*No, they are not "undocumented" people. Undocumented is what you are if you came here legally, remain within the legal terms of your coming here, and simply lost your passport. If you are a non-citizen in the U.S. contrary to the laws of the U.S., then you are ipso facto an illegal alien. Now how we deal with such people is another can of worms.

Swearing allegiance as a requirement seems like it is going the opposite of our first amendment. And government taking more money isn't going to solve anything either, it's just another way they can gain our dollars and reduce the ability for poor folks to try and find opportunity. Gonna be a no for me on this.