But we will survive this ordeal, because the youth, political parties and many in the military realize that sacrifices will be necessary in the months to come, and that these sacrifices will be the basis for forging a modern Yemen built on the principles of citizenship and equal rights for all.
Other candidates have followed in his wake by endorsing mass deportations; breaking up families; and changing our long-held Constitutional principles of citizenship, specifically the Fourteenth Amendment's inclusion of all persons born in the United States as U.S. citizens.
"Lebanese youth need to unite to overcome the great challenges that confront them, and to promote the principles of citizenship," said camp manager Abass Abu Zeid.
It's a kind of unspoken principle of citizenship that you revere those who fight for your country.
A lawsuit brought by a Chinese-American man, Wong Kim Ark, codified the principle of citizenship as a birthright in 1898.
It makes nonsense of the Muslim Brotherhood's own electoral platform, which committed to a state "based on the principle of citizenship, where all citizens enjoy equal rights".
"Civility cannot be a governing principle of citizenship or leadership," he said, adding that "though the war in which we are engaged is cultural, not civil," one should not let principles be "cannibalized".
The only way we can achieve an actual and concrete embodiment of the lofty principle of citizenship is through the activation of ethnic and religious minority-based organisations and engagement in a common struggle on the ground bringing together a diverse broad coalition of different forces, ethnic and religious groups, civil liberties and human rights organizations and political currents.
The Brotherhood's promise to introduce the "principle of citizenship and end all forms of discrimination" had not materialised, she added.
The Court noted this was the "settled and definite rule of international law, generally recognized by civilized nations," was "the ancient rule of citizenship by birth within the dominion," and in the Fourteenth Amendment "the fundamental principle of citizenship by birth within the dominion was reaffirmed in the most explicit and comprehensive terms".
It was eclipsed first by the Civil Rights Act of 1866, then by the 14th Amendment of 1868, both of which enshrined the principles of birthright citizenship and equal citizenship.
