After San Francisco voted to allow non-citizens to vote in school-board elections, as of November, many began to wonder what citizenship means in the United States. That question was to put to 428 House members on Sept. 26 in the form of House Resolution 1071, with 65 percent essentially saying they agreed that “allowing illegal […]

Although Gwyneth Barbara was born in a farmhouse instead of the hospital or birth center in Leavenworth County, Kansas, she still had a certified birth certificate. However, the Kansas woman was recently told that she needed additional documentation to prove that she was a citizen for her passport application. “I have a birth certificate. It […]

SYDNEY—Australia’s High Court has ruled an 11th lawmaker must leave parliament after discovering she was a dual national, the Australian Broadcasting Corp reported on Wednesday, which prompted four more lawmakers to quit amid a widening citizenship crisis. The court found that opposition Senator Katy Gallagher was a British citizen at the time of her election, […]

It’s so easy in a presidential election year to forget that our system is not about a single person.

In August, Deerpark Town Supervisor and Republican Chairman Gary Spears challenged the right to vote of 30 residents of Dragon Springs and this is their answer.

If current demographic trends continue, the ranks of religious believers in the world could rise through 2050, reports a Pew Research Report. Islam would show the fastest rate of growth, and the unaffiliated would decline in proportion to other religious categories. Riaz Hassan, director of the International Centre for Muslim and non-Muslim Understanding at the University of South Australia, analyzes the data for India, along with the Sachar Committee report on the status of Muslims in Indian society and India’s 2011 census report. He points out that Muslims could represent nearly one out of five Indians by 2050 as compared with one out of seven today. “The population increase will present additional and more complex challenges for the nation’s democratic political system grounded in its secular constitution that envisions justice, liberty, equality and fraternity for all Indian citizens—but is increasingly contested,” he writes. India is poised to be the world’s most populous nation by 2050. Uneven opportunities for a major minority group increase the risks of resentment, instability and security threats.

Described as a critical development failure, many countries' systems for registering major life events like births and deaths are incomplete or absent.