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The Sovereign Citizen : Denaturalization and the Origins of the American Republic.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (292 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812206210
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 342.7308/3
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Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART I. THE FEDERALIZATION OF NATURALIZATION -- Chapter 1. Denaturalization, The Main Instrument of Federal Power -- Chapter 2. The Installment of the Bureau of Naturalization, 1909-1926 -- Chapter 3. The Victory of the Federalization of Naturalization, 1926-1940 -- PART II. A CONDITIONAL CITIZENSHIP -- Chapter 4. The First Political Denaturalization: Emma Goldman -- Chapter 5. Radicals and Asians -- Chapter 6. In the Largest Numbers: The Penalty of Living Abroad -- Chapter 7. The Proactive Denaturalization Program During World War II -- PART III. WAR IN THE SUPREME COURT -- Chapter 8. Schneiderman: A Republican Leader Defends a Communist -- Chapter 9. Baumgartner: The program Ends, but Denaturalization Continues -- Chapter 10. A Frozen Interlude in the Cold War -- Chapter 11. Nishikawa, Perez, Trop: "The Most Important Constitutional Pronouncements of This Century -- Chapter 12. American Citizenship is Secured: "May Perez Rest in Peace! -- Conclusion -- Appendixes -- Appendix 1. Emma Goldman, "A Woman Without a Country -- From Mother Earth (1909) -- From Free Vistas (1933) -- Appendix 2. Chiefs of the Naturalization Bureau and Evolution of Departmental Responsibilities -- Appendix 3. Naturalization Cancellations in the United States, 1907-1973 -- Appendix 4. Americans Expatriated, by Grounds and Year, 1945-1977 -- Appendix 5. Supreme Court and other Important Court Decisions Related to Denaturalization and Nonvoluntary Expatriation from Schneiderman and Participating Supreme Court Justices -- Notes -- Archival Sources and interviews -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Acknowledgments.
Summary: Present-day Americans may feel secure in their citizenship, but there was a time when citizens could be denationalized. Patrick Weil examines the twentieth-century legal procedures, causes, and enforcement of denaturalization to illuminate an important and neglected dimension of American citizenship, sovereignty, and federal authority.
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART I. THE FEDERALIZATION OF NATURALIZATION -- Chapter 1. Denaturalization, The Main Instrument of Federal Power -- Chapter 2. The Installment of the Bureau of Naturalization, 1909-1926 -- Chapter 3. The Victory of the Federalization of Naturalization, 1926-1940 -- PART II. A CONDITIONAL CITIZENSHIP -- Chapter 4. The First Political Denaturalization: Emma Goldman -- Chapter 5. Radicals and Asians -- Chapter 6. In the Largest Numbers: The Penalty of Living Abroad -- Chapter 7. The Proactive Denaturalization Program During World War II -- PART III. WAR IN THE SUPREME COURT -- Chapter 8. Schneiderman: A Republican Leader Defends a Communist -- Chapter 9. Baumgartner: The program Ends, but Denaturalization Continues -- Chapter 10. A Frozen Interlude in the Cold War -- Chapter 11. Nishikawa, Perez, Trop: "The Most Important Constitutional Pronouncements of This Century -- Chapter 12. American Citizenship is Secured: "May Perez Rest in Peace! -- Conclusion -- Appendixes -- Appendix 1. Emma Goldman, "A Woman Without a Country -- From Mother Earth (1909) -- From Free Vistas (1933) -- Appendix 2. Chiefs of the Naturalization Bureau and Evolution of Departmental Responsibilities -- Appendix 3. Naturalization Cancellations in the United States, 1907-1973 -- Appendix 4. Americans Expatriated, by Grounds and Year, 1945-1977 -- Appendix 5. Supreme Court and other Important Court Decisions Related to Denaturalization and Nonvoluntary Expatriation from Schneiderman and Participating Supreme Court Justices -- Notes -- Archival Sources and interviews -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Acknowledgments.

Present-day Americans may feel secure in their citizenship, but there was a time when citizens could be denationalized. Patrick Weil examines the twentieth-century legal procedures, causes, and enforcement of denaturalization to illuminate an important and neglected dimension of American citizenship, sovereignty, and federal authority.

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