Guam residents are American citizens who lack the constitutional rights of other Americans

Evidence

At a public meeting held by the military at a local public high school, We Are Guåhan’s Cara Flores-Mays pointed out that the United States was founded by people seeking freedom. Standing up, her eyes welling with tears, she asked, Where do the people of Guam go to obtain that freedom that all other Americans enjoy? Where do we go? I’m an American citizen just like any other, she said. I want constitutional rights like everyone else. Do I have to move to be a real American? — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 261

Categorization

• SEED: Could anchor an essay on the paradox of citizenship without constitutional rights in U.S. territories.
• XREF: connects to: Puerto Rico remains a constitutional limbo neither state nor colony — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 3754; The US denies constitutional protections to non-citizens outside its territory — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 529