 ultimo, a copy of which you transmit. " In answer to the first point presented by you, I may observe that on the 27th of July, 1868, Congress declared that the right of expatriation is a natural and inherent right of all people, indispensable to the enjoyment...  A Digest of International Law... - Page 722by John Bassett Moore - 1906Full view - About this book
 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1968 - 926 pages
...voluntarily relinquished. The right of voluntary expatriation was recognized by Congress in 1868. 8 Congress declared that "the right of expatriation is a natural and inherent T US Const., Art. I, §8, :\. 4. 8 See, eg, Knaw.r v. United States, 328 US 654; Baumgartner v. United... | |
 | Almanacs, American - 1867 - 324 pages
...Aliaska. No. 101.—Concerning the Rights of American Citizens in Foreign States. Whereas the right oí expatriation is a natural and inherent right of all people, indispensable to the enjoyment of the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness ; and whereas in the recognition of this... | |
 | United States - Session laws - 1869 - 878 pages
...1868. CHAP. CCXLIX. — An Act concerning the Rights of American Citizens in foreign Slates. WHEREAS the right of expatriation is a natural and inherent...right of all people, indispensable to the enjoyment of the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness ; and whereas in the recognition of this... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1869 - 672 pages
...to the House of Representatives by General Banks on the 20th of February. The preamble declared, “ The right of expatriation is a natural and inherent...right of all people, indispensable to the enjoyment of the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, for the protection of which the Government... | |
 | William Beach Lawrence - Aliens - 1871 - 162 pages
...emphatically proclaimed in the act already referred to, which passed Congress in 1868. It declares that " the right of expatriation is a natural and...right of all people, indispensable to the enjoyment of the rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Any declaration, instruction, opinion, order... | |
 | United States. Department of State - Allegiance - 1873 - 314 pages
...hereinafter stated, to which I respectfully make answer as follows : Quretio* I. The law-making power having declared that the right of expatriation is a natural...right of all people, indispensable to the enjoyment of the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, (15 US Stat., p. 223,) should the Executive... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1874 - 834 pages
...Hon. HAMILTON FISH, Secretar)/ of State. QUESTIONS. EXECUTIVE MANSION, I. The law-making power having declared that " the right of expatriation is a natural...right of all people, indispensable to the enjoyment of the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," (15 Stat. at Large, 223,) should the Executive... | |
 | Henry Flanders - Constitutional law - 1874 - 296 pages
...common law principle that allegiance is intrinsic and perpetual. In that act Congress has assumed and declared that the right of expatriation is a natural...right of all people, indispensable to the enjoyment of the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; and declared inconsistent with the fundamental... | |
 | Herbert Broom, Edward Alfred Hadley - Law - 1875 - 966 pages
...has finally settled the rule so far as the government of the United States is concerned : " Whereas, the right of expatriation is a natural and inherent...right of all people, indispensable to the enjoyment of the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness ; and whereas, in the recognition of this... | |
 | John Lambert Cadwalader, United States. Department of State - International law - 1877 - 308 pages
...change in his nationality. n>. 15. The declaration in the act of 1868, (15 Stat., 223; ES, § 1999,) that the right of expatriation is " a natural and inherent right of all people," comprehends our own citizens as well as those of other countries; and where a citizen of the United... | |
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