 | George Breckenridge Davis - 1887 - 512 pages
...the United States. In 1868 an Act of Congress was passed declaring that " the_^g^t_pf_exp_atnation is a natural and inherent right of all people, indispensable...enjoyment of the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." This act, which is declaratory in character, has never received judicial interpretation.... | |
 | Dugald J. Bannatyne - 1887 - 652 pages
...States Revised Statutes (27th July 1868, chap. 249) enact that, whereas the right of expatriation ia a natural and inherent right of all people, indispensable...enjoyment of the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness ; and whereas in the recognition of this principle this Government has freely received... | |
 | 1900 - 1242 pages
...for many years, and the congress of the United States, by an act adopted July 27, 1S08, declared that "the right of expatriation is a natural and inherent...all people, Indispensable to the enjoyment of the right of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," and prescribes "that any declaration, instruction,... | |
 | 1887 - 896 pages
...the mother country. It was not until July 27, 1868, that by an act of Congress it was declared that " the right of expatriation is a natural and inherent...all people, indispensable to the enjoyment of the right of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," and that "any declaration, instruction, opinion,... | |
 | Robert Phillimore - 1889 - 934 pages
...the United States " the question was settled by the Act of July 27, 1868, " which provides that, ' Whereas the right of expatriation " ' is a natural and inherent right of all people, iiidispen(o) As to national status of married women and infant children, vide pnst, chap. xx. ; and... | |
 | John Alderson Foote - 1890 - 686 pages
...will be best seen by contrasting with it the preamble of the Act of July 27, 1868, on this subject: "Whereas the right of expatriation is a natural and...enjoyment of the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness ; and whereas, in the recognition of this principle, this Government has freely received... | |
 | Samuel Freeman Miller - 1891 - 800 pages
...which will be found in vi. the margin : * and, on the 27th of the following Julv> Congress enacted that "the right of expatriation is a natural and inherent...enjoyment of the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happi-' ness " ; that, " in the recognition of this principle this government has freely received... | |
 | Burke Aaron Hinsdale - 1891 - 548 pages
...seamen, once British subjects, was the principal cause of the war of 1812. In 1868 Congress declared that expatriation is a " natural and inherent right of...enjoyment of the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." and this doctrine is now pretty generally received. England finally conceded the principle... | |
 | William Carey Jones, California. State Board of Education - 1891 - 266 pages
...citizenship in another. This loss of citizenship is called expatriation. A law of Congress declares that "expatriation is a natural and inherent right of all...enjoyment of the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." 137. Citizenship in State and Nation. — As a rule, every citizen in the Union is clothed... | |
 | Henry Sidgwick - 1891 - 730 pages
...realisation would obviously cause. i In 1S6S, an Act was passed in the United States affirming that "the right of expatriation is a natural and inherent right of all people ;" but I do not think that any European Government has ever expressly admitted this or any equivalent... | |
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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... 
