 | 1887 - 606 pages
...indispensable to the ' enjoyment of the right of life, liberty, and the pursuit of ' happiness,' and that ' any declaration, instruction, opinion, ' order, or decision of any officer of this Government which ' denies, restricts, impairs, or questions the right of expatria' tion is hereby... | |
 | 1916 - 986 pages
...expressed in the Act of Congress in 1868 declaring it 'an inherent right of all people,' and declaring that any 'declaration, instruction, opinion, order, or decision of any officer of this government which denies, restricts, impairs, or questions the right of expatriation ' is ' inconsistent... | |
 | 1868 - 194 pages
...for the protection of naturalised American citizens abroad." This bill enacts that any declaration or decision of any officer of the United States "...impairs, or questions the right of expatriation, is hereby declared inconsistent with the fundamental principle of the government, and therefore null and... | |
 | United States. Department of State - 1875 - 760 pages
...public peace that this claim of foreign allegiance should be promptly and finally disavowed : Therefore, any declaration, instruction, opinion, order, or decision...officer of the United States which denies, restricts, impair-*, or questions the right of expatriation is declared inconsistent with the fundamental principles... | |
 | 1885 - 550 pages
...act, " any declaration, instruction, opinion, order or decision of any officers of this government which denies, restricts, impairs or questions the right of expatriation," is declared to be " inconsistent with the fundamental principles " of our government. 13 Stats. 223; Rev. Stat.,... | |
 | United States. Department of State - 1871 - 478 pages
...Britain was applicable to American citizens. Congress then wisely swept these doubts away by enacting that "any declaration, instruction, opinion, order, or decision of any officer of this Government which denies, restricts, impairs, or questions the right of expatriation, is inconsistent... | |
 | United States. President - 1873 - 898 pages
...Britain was applicable to American citizens. Congress then wisely swept these doubts away by enacting that "any declaration, instruction, opinion order, or decision of any officer of this Government which denies, restricts, impairs, or questions the right of expatriation, is inconsistent... | |
 | United States. Department of State - 1874 - 564 pages
...Whereas the right of expatriation is allegiance should be promptly and finally disavowed: Therefore any declaration, instruction, opinion, order, or decision...or questions the right of expatriation, is declared inconsistent with the fundamental principles of the Republic. 911.. SEC. 2000. All naturalized citizens... | |
 | Edward McPherson - 1872
...Britain was applicable to American citizens. Congress then wisely swept these doubts away by enacting that " any declaration, instruction, opinion, order, or decision of any officer of this Government which denies, restricts, impairs, or questions the right of expatriation, is inconsistent... | |
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American citizens, with their descendants, are subjects of foreign states, owing allegiance to the governments thereof; and whereas it is necessary to the maintenance of public peace that this claim of foreign allegiance should be promptly and finally... 
