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Without equal voting rights and congressional representation, the Americans living in these territories cannot remedy their status at the ballot box.
The four million inhabitants of five U.S. territories do not have the full protection of the Constitution, because of Supreme Court cases.
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Photo: 123rf That appeals court's decision reversed a federal court ruling from 2019, in Fitisemanu versus the United States, that recognised American Samoans as US citizens. The Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment guarantees that "ll persons born or naturalised in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States..." But because of a federal law labelled by some as discriminatory, people born in American Samoa are labelled as "nationals, but not citizens, of the United States". In their June decision, the panel for the Tenth Circuit reli...