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| | Essays: Measuring Citizenship |
 | | Jus Solis conferring states are only prevalent among the Organization of American States (OAS)—a political entity of the Western Hemisphere that combines both “developed” and “developing” states. |
 | | States that confer citizenship to all foreign nationals born within its borders, regardless of the nationality of the parents, and under all circumstances, including those born unto foreign diplomatic personnel, transient parents, or ships flying the state flag in international waters, are a small sample of the world population of states. |
 | | Under the Nationality Act (May 4, 1950), Japan carries a similar law: a child, whose father is a citizen of Japan (jus sanguinis a patre), regardless of the child's state of birth, or a child born to a Japanese mother and unknown or stateless father, is awarded Japanese citizenship. |
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