It is what "membership"
means. I even qualified my original statement with "when on American
Soil", though I thought it would be obvious.

So we here do something wrong when granting the same rights to _everybody_
as long as they are legally in the country? We even protect the minorities.

Yes.

Were we to grant general voting rights to non-citizens, that would be
wrong. (However, some voting rights to non-citizen property owners,
relating solely to their property, would be reasonable).

Jose
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