Citizenship

Citizenship and the Constitution

The Constitution does not directly grant the power to set up rules of naturalization or citizenship to any government, including the federal government, but the Constitution implies that the rules and process of citizenship can be enacted by the federal government under the "general welfare" of the confederation and the "necessary and proper" requirement for federal legislation. 

Section IV, Article XVIII of the Constitution of the Republic of Tinland explained how citizenship is affected by the adoption of the new constitution. Controversially, the section allowed all people residing "within the jurisdiction of the confederation, or of any State or Territory," by the time the constitution was adopted, would be considered citizens of the Republic of Tinland, which meant that the population of the confederation was over 120,000 people. However, due to the Republic of Tinland adopting the Edgbaston Convention, the actual population of the confederation is about 16 people. 

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