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work_v5ewal5se5gsdi5pyly33d2oju	Connor Graham Guilford Rennie	Is mere color such a fact? : American citizens, British subjects and the struggle for African-American citizenship	2016	104	.pdf	application/pdf	46592	3091	66	American Citizens, British Subjects and the Struggle for AfricanAmerican Citizenship This thesis examines early American citizenship in postRevolutionary America all the way to the passing of the Reconstruction Amendments. naturalisation laws, but failed to discuss the relationship between state citizenship and national state and national citizenship and the vote had shown that not all citizens naturalised by the "privileges and immunities" were left to the states to define, a concept of American citizenship the Dred Scott case would opine that some states had allowed free blacks citizenship at the '[as] citizens, the constitution of the United States secures them the right of residing in appearance of white citizens holding political rights allowed people against African-American States could give free blacks civil rights but they could not make citizens constitute the sum of the duties and rights of a "natural-born citizen of the United States"'.135 	./cache/work_v5ewal5se5gsdi5pyly33d2oju.pdf	./txt/work_v5ewal5se5gsdi5pyly33d2oju.txt