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							<title><![CDATA[A Naturalized Citizen Reflects on the Declaration]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Roosevelt Montas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I became an American citizen through a process called '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'naturalization.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' The term appears in the Constitution, but it is much older. Derived from the Latin'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' natio'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' ('&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'birth'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'), it was already in use by the fifteenth century to mean what it does today: to confer on a...]]></description>
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