In a second effort at compromise, Trumbull presented for Johnson's signature the first Civil Rights Bill, which sought to grant citizenship to the freedmen.

States normally grant citizenship to people who have immigrated to that state and have resided there for the given number of years.

Another concern was whether it was proper to grant citizenship to the French, Spanish, and free black people living in New Orleans, as the treaty would dictate.

As of 2000, Bulgaria started to grant Bulgarian citizenship to members of the Bulgarian minorities in a number of countries, including the Republic of Macedonia.

Swiss citizens living abroad are generally exempted from conscription in time of peace while dual citizenship by itself does not grant such exemption.

This right to immigrate did not and still does not grant citizenship.

Because of Israel's relatively new and culturally-mixed identity, Israel does not grant citizenship to persons born on Israeli soil.

The minister can also grant citizenship to minors, if their parent applies for them.

King Abdullah I of Jordan decided to grant citizenship to the Arab refugees and residents living in the West Bank against the wishes of many Arab leaders who still hoped to establish an Arab state.

In 1959, Egypt's new leader Gamal Abdul Nasser ordered the dismantling of the All-Palestine Government, yet notably refused to grant Palestinians in Gaza Egyptian citizenship.

In an August 2010 report, the Center for Immigration Studies, through direct communication with foreign government officials and analysis of relevant foreign law including statutory and constitutional law, was able to confirm that 30 of the world's 194 countries grant automatic birthright citizenship ( although they were not able to obtain definitive information from 19 countries ).

The white paper specifically states, " The new grant of British citizenship will not be a barrier, therefore, to those Overseas Territories choosing to become independent of Britain .... Our Overseas Territories are British for as long as they wish to remain British.

These amendments grant citizenship ( 14th ), and voting rights to all races ( 15th ), women ( 19th ), without poll tax ( 24th ) and youth 18 – 21 years old ( 26th ).

This unusual type of citizenship by descent is an intermediate form of citizenship in that it does not grant the full portfolio of rights enjoyed by Indian citizens.

Separately from this right, the Irish minister responsible for immigration may dispense with conditions of naturalisation to grant citizenship to an applicant who " is of Irish descent or Irish associations ", under section 15 of the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act, 1986.

One aspect of Roman influence seen in British life was the grant of Roman citizenship.

On June 12, 2011, a document surfaced that most likely points to Rosenkopf as the first German town to grant Adolf Hitler honorary citizenship ( July 22, 1932 ), not Bad Doberan.

He also received American citizenship and a grant of land near present-day Columbus, Ohio, and was admitted to both the prestigious Society of the Cincinnati and the American Philosophical Society.

The court decision also ruled that Constantine's human rights were not violated by the Greek state's decision not to grant him Greek citizenship and passport until he acquires a surname, which Constantine does not possess.

While the action of Napoleon aroused in many Jews of Germany the hope that, influenced by it, their governments also would grant them the rights of citizenship, others looked upon it as a political contrivance.

The New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs ( in Māori Te Tari Taiwhenua ) is a state sector organisation whose roles include the issue of passports ; administering citizenship grant applications, and lottery grant applications ; enforcement of censorship and gambling law ; registration of births, deaths, marriages and civil unions ; providing policy advice on a range of issues ; and supplying support services to Ministers of the Crown.

This view of citizenship and the General Will, once empowered, could simultaneously embrace the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen and adopt the liberal French Constitution of 1793, then immediately suspend that constitution and all ordinary legality and institute Revolutionary Tribunals that did not grant a presumption of innocence.

Though the bill granted Native Americans citizenship it did not grant them the right to vote and Zitkala-Ša continued to work for civil rights and better access to health care and education for Native Americans up until her death in 1938.

The agreement would grant exemption to a quota of yeshiva ( religious seminary ) students and to all orthodox women from military service, would make the Sabbath the national weekend, promised Kosher food in government institutions and would allow them to maintain a separate education system.

It was the first religious order of knighthood to grant the rank of militissa to women.

Images which later displayed attributes of both genders are believed to be in accordance with the Lotus Sutra, where Avalokitesvara has the supernatural power of assuming any form required to relieve suffering, and also has the power to grant children ( possibly relating to the fact that in this Sutra, unlike in others, both men and women are believed to have the ability to achieve enlightenment.

In 1925, the Nova Scotia Legislature awarded the Mount the right to grant its own degrees, making it the only independent women ’ s college in the British Commonwealth.

South Australia granted restricted women's suffrage in 1861, and in 1895 became the second place in the world to grant universal suffrage ( after New Zealand ), and the first where women had the dual rights to vote and to stand for election.

* May 2 – The United Methodist Church in America decides at its General Conference to grant women full ordained clergy status.

** New Zealand becomes the first country in the world to grant women the right to vote.

Elizabeth apparently took to Ní Mháille, who was three years older, and the two women reached sufficient agreement for Elizabeth to grant Ní Mháille's requests provided that her support of many Irish rebellions and piracy against England ended.

In recent years, there has been a long public debate about whether to issue programs that would grant women a privileged access to jobs in order to fight discrimination.

In Israel, the Shalom Hartman Institute, founded by Orthodox Rabbi David Hartman, opened a program in 2009 that will grant semicha to women and men of all Jewish denominations, including Orthodox Judaism, although the students are meant to " assume the role of ' rabbi-educators ' – not pulpit rabbis-in North American community day schools.

Pankhurst's Manx heritage was a possible source of her political consciousness, especially since the Isle of Man was the first country to grant women the right to vote in national elections, in 1881.

This was the first government to do so in the British Empire and three years before the ' Persons Case ' decision of the Privy Council in London would grant the same privilege to women throughout the Empire.

If women are present, it is they who might grant the men permission to smoke.

It was the first college in North Carolina to grant degrees to women.

The Australian colonies established democratic parliaments from the 1850s and began to grant women the vote in the 1890s.

Black students were admitted immediately after the college's 1844 founding, and the College became the second school in the nation to grant four-year liberal arts degrees to women.

The prevalence of obstetrical fistula is much lower in places that discourage early marriage, encourage and provide education of women, and grant women access to family planning and skilled medical teams to assist during childbirth.

In Australia Pam O ’ Neill and Linda Jones, in 1979, were the pioneers that forced jockey club officials to grant women the right to compete on an equal footing in registered races against men.

Caldwell College was incorporated on August 10, 1939, as an institution of higher learning for women under the laws of the State of New Jersey and empowered to grant degrees.

Mahbuba Hoquqmal, the Afghan Minister of Women's Affairs, said the constitution does not grant protection to women's property rights, and does not prevent women being forced to marry without their consent, and does not offer better guarantees of equal treatment by Afghanistan's courts.

It was the last Swiss canton to grant women the vote on local issues, in 1991.

Appenzell Innerrhoden was the last canton to grant women the right to vote, being forced to do so only in 1990 when some women of Appenzell filed suit in the Switzerland Federal Supreme Court and won.