Which groups of people in the polis were not allowed citizenship?

This excluded a majority of the population: slaves, freed slaves, children, women and metics (foreigners resident in Athens). The women had limited rights and privileges, had restricted movement in public, and were very segregated from the men.

new evidence is discovered.

oversights and errors are corrected,

new technology is applied to evidence.

a.

congress passed laws allowing for free passage between states.