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  • The right to travel is a real, unenumerated, right of the people that has been recognized in various Supreme Court rulings in accordance with the tenth amendment.

    Like all of the rights, it has reasonable limits. You can’t yell “fire” in a crowded theater, and you have to pay taxes and put a number plate on your car.

    This article 4 of the Confederate constitution is basically just putting this down in writing, with a bunch of racist slaver BS added.

    Also, non-citizen national passports do exist for “United States Nationals”, who are nationals but not citizens. This population currently includes some American Samoans and Northern Mariana Islanders.















  • The Geneva conventions do not contain the level of protection for civilians that you think.

    In particular, Israel has ratified and is a party to the conventions of 1949. After much debate in 1949, those conventions ultimately allowed things like indiscriminate carpet bombing of cities (which the US practiced extensively in the previous war).

    Later protocols from 1977 added more civilian protections more along the lines you propose. These protocols banned carpet bombing and introduced the concept of proportionate response into the conventions.

    Israel and the United States have not ratified the 1977 protocols 1 and 2 concerning additional civilian protections. According to the text itself, they are not bound by the provisions if they do not agree.