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Afroyim v. Rusk

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Afroyim v. Rusk, 387 U.S. 253 (1967), is a major United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled that citizens of the United States may not be deprived of their citizenship involuntarily. [1]

27 relations: Accidental American, Bancroft Treaties, Citizenship Clause, Citizenship of the United States, Enrollment Act, Expatriation Act of 1868, Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, List of landmark court decisions in the United States, List of overruled United States Supreme Court decisions, List of United States Supreme Court cases by the Warren Court, List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 387, Multiple citizenship, Nationality Act of 1940, Naturalization, Nishikawa v. Dulles, Perez v. Brownell, Peter J. Spiro, Reconstruction Amendments, Relinquishment of United States nationality, Rogers v. Bellei, Rusk (disambiguation), Soshana Afroyim, Thomas Jolley, Titles of Nobility Amendment, United States nationality law, Vance v. Terrazas, Yaser Esam Hamdi.

Accidental American

An accidental American is a citizen of a country other than the United States who may also be considered a U.S. citizen or eligible for U.S. citizenship under U.S. nationality law but is not aware of having such status, or has only become aware of it recently during adulthood.

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Bancroft Treaties

The Bancroft treaties, also called the Bancroft conventions, were a series of agreements made in the late 19th and early 20th centuries between the United States and other countries.

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Citizenship Clause

The Citizenship Clause is the first sentence of Section 1 in the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which was adopted on July 9, 1868.

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Citizenship of the United States

Citizenship of the United States is a status that entails specific rights, duties and benefits.

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Enrollment Act

The Enrollment Act,, enacted March 3, 1863, also known as the Civil War Military Draft Act, was legislation passed by the United States Congress during the American Civil War to provide fresh manpower for the Union Army.

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Expatriation Act of 1868

The Expatriation Act of 1868 was an act of the 40th United States Congress regarding the right to renounce one's citizenship.

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Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments.

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List of landmark court decisions in the United States

The following is a partial list of landmark court decisions in the United States.

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List of overruled United States Supreme Court decisions

This is a list of decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States that have been explicitly overruled, in part or in whole, by a subsequent decision of the Court.

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List of United States Supreme Court cases by the Warren Court

This is a partial chronological list of cases decided by the United States Supreme Court during Warren Court, the tenure of Chief Justice Earl Warren from October 5, 1953 through June 23, 1969.

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List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 387

This is a list of all the United States Supreme Court cases from volume 387 of the United States Reports.

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Multiple citizenship

Multiple citizenship, dual citizenship, multiple nationality or dual nationality, is a person's citizenship status, in which a person is concurrently regarded as a citizen of more than one state under the laws of those states.

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Nationality Act of 1940

The Nationality Act of 1940 (H.R. 9980; Pub.L. 76-853; 54 Stat. 1137) revised numerous provisions of law relating to American citizenship and naturalization.

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Naturalization

Naturalization (or naturalisation) is the legal act or process by which a non-citizen in a country may acquire citizenship or nationality of that country.

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Nishikawa v. Dulles

Nishikawa v. Dulles, 356 U.S. 129 (1958), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled that a dual US/Japanese citizen who had served in the Japanese military during World War II could not be held to have lost his US citizenship unless the United States could prove that he had acted voluntarily.

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Perez v. Brownell

Perez v. Brownell,, was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court affirmed Congress's right to revoke United States citizenship as a result of a citizen's voluntary performance of specified actions, even in the absence of any intent or desire on the person's part to lose citizenship.

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Peter J. Spiro

Peter John Spiro (born 1961) is an American legal scholar, whose specialities include international law and U.S. constitutional law.

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Reconstruction Amendments

The Reconstruction Amendments are the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendments to the United States Constitution, adopted between 1865 and 1870, the five years immediately following the Civil War.

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Relinquishment of United States nationality

Relinquishment of United States nationality is the process under federal law by which a U.S. citizen or national voluntarily and intentionally gives up that status and becomes an alien with respect to the United States.

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Rogers v. Bellei

Rogers v. Bellei,, was a decision by the United States Supreme Court, which held that an individual who received an automatic congressional grant of citizenship at birth, but who was born outside the United States, may lose his citizenship for failure to fulfill any reasonable residence requirements which the United States Congress may impose as a condition subsequent to that citizenship.

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Rusk (disambiguation)

Rusk may refer to.

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Soshana Afroyim

Soshana Afroyim (September 1, 1927 – December 9, 2015) was an Austrian painter of the Modernism period.

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Thomas Jolley

Thomas Glenn Jolley (January 26, 1944 – March 20, 2014) was an anti-Vietnam War protester who renounced his U.S. citizenship in Canada.

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Titles of Nobility Amendment

The Titles of Nobility Amendment is a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution.

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United States nationality law

The United States nationality law is a uniform rule of naturalization of the United States set out in the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, enacted under the power of Article I, section 8, clause 4 of the United States Constitution (also referred to as the Nationality Clause), which reads: Congress shall have Power - "To establish a uniform Rule of Naturalization..." The 1952 Act sets forth the legal requirements for the acquisition of, and divestiture from, American nationality.

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Vance v. Terrazas

Vance v. Terrazas, was a United States Supreme Court decision that established that a United States citizen cannot have his or her citizenship taken away unless he or she has acted with an intent to give up that citizenship.

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Yaser Esam Hamdi

Yaser Esam Hamdi (born September 26, 1980) is a former American citizen who was captured in Afghanistan in 2001.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afroyim_v._Rusk

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