Also, non-citizens have been voting and holding office in some jurisdictions since the founding.
https://scholarship.law.umn.edu/cgi/vie ... xt=lawineq
I quote from the above:
Yeah, and inconvenient facts are irrelevant if you have no facts in your head in the first place. Part of being a good conservative is knowing your history. Unfortunately we have a lot of really bad conservatives here on this board.It also has been established that unnaturalized immigrants voted and held local office throughout the colonies, including in Maryland as early as 1692,17 South Carolina in 1704,18 Pennsylvania as of 174719 and the Northwest Territory under The
Ordinance of 1787.20 States and territories originally part of the Northwest Territory also continued to allow alien suffrage,21
although the territories only elected officials within their jurisdiction and non-voting delegates to Congress; they did not
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elect federal legislators or executive officers.
Generally, however, the line between national and state
citizenship during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries was not clearly demarcated, so those states which permitted noncitizen voting allowed it at all levels, local to national.23 State citizenship, not national, was the dominant identity, to the point that several states granted foreigners state citizenship after the Revolution.24 It took nearly "three decades to settle the exclusivity of the federal power to naturalize to national citizenship," though
even then the possibility of a distinct state citizenship was not
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David Bonn 
