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The Constitution does not list a set of amendments that “explicitly apply” only to non‑citizens; instead, many provisions use the words “person” or “people,” and courts have long held that several ame...
The United States has no single federal "age of majority"; , and . A small number of states still set different ages—Alabama and Nebraska at 19, Mississippi at 21—while the 26th Amendment separately g...
A former U.S. president can legally be indicted, tried, convicted, and sentenced to prison after leaving office; , and courts and legal scholars treat former presidents like other citizens in this res...
Yes: U.S. law recognizes “aliens” (people who are not U.S. citizens or nationals) and it explicitly distinguishes those who are present or admitted lawfully — commonly called lawful permanent resident...
No sitting U.S. president has ever been federally indicted while in office; legal consensus and long-standing Department of Justice policy since the 1970s hold that a sitting president should not be c...
Article I, Section 6, Clause 2 of the U.S. Constitution — commonly called the Incompatibility Clause or the Emoluments/Sinecure Clause — bars a sitting Senator or Representative from being appointed t...