Has this ever been tried by a democracy before? How did that work out for them?

Has this ever been tried by a democracy before? How did that work out for them?

france, russia and spain have foreign legions

you can enlist in the us army to get citizenship after a period of time.

The Roman Republic after the Marian Reforms is the most obvious example.
Also the Greek city states enjoyed handing out citizenship to people who did right by them.

The Irish during the civil war?

I'm guessing OP probably means exclusively. Meaning you *must* be a state servant/solider to be a citizen even despite birth.

Which my answer to is, "I don't know probably not". But someone really ought to give it a try.

The quickest way for immigrants to United States to gain citizenship was (and still is) to serve in the army.

Didn't the Roman Empire do something like that?

this. you can just walk into the US embassy in your country, say you want to join the US military, and then you become a citizen

You need to have a permanent residence in the US i think.

Question: why don't many immigrants do this?

Seems easy enough.

They do.

t. sailor. Shitloads of Filipino niggas in the Navy.

Because you need a green card and residency in the US, like said

A lot do, but that aside there's the fact that you have a chance of dying.

AFAIK, no state has ever made it so that even those born and naturalized in the nation need to serve in the military just to be able to vote.

The Filipinos in the Navy and Mexicans in the Army are some of the hardest workers in there.

They know that they can get citizenship, and that allows them to bring their kids and family out of the crappy parts of Mexico/Philippines, also gives them a free college education.

Whereas if Cletus or Bubba fucks up and gets kicked out, they just go back to their trailer park/ghetto.

Most greek city-states did that, as well as Rome pre-Marius.

In some Medieval communes, you'll never be a full citizen until you served time in a militia. Usually 3 years and involving garrison duties and law enforcement and the occassional wartime service.

But that's not how it works in Starship Troopers. Citizens' families enjoy voting rights.

The idea was derived from Athenic democracy.

What a lot of people don't understand is that most mexicans are hardcore conservatives
This highlight by how shit mexico is because of cartels and how heavily catholic they are
Second generation is gonna be pretty based

Other way around, citizens have to serve, but serving doesn't make you a citizen. In some cases, non citizens are not allowed to join the army.

The closest ideal to "service guarantees citizenship" are the post-Marian auxiliaries, who did get their citizenship after 15-25 years. These Auxiliaries then adopted Roman style names.

For example, Gaius Julius Civilis literally has "citizen" as part of his name, to denote that he was a Roman citizen by merit of service despite being a Batavian. When he and his brother led a revolt against Roman mistreatment, his brother was executed, while Civilis, being a citizen, was allowed to plead his case in Rome in front of the Emperor Nero. Nero was overthrown while Civilis was awaiting appeal and freed by Galba.

They may be conservatives, but they'll never vote Republican as long as the party message is "dey turk er jerbs".