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Author Weil, Patrick, 1956- author.

Title The sovereign citizen : denaturalization and the origins of the American Republic / Patrick Weil
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2013

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 285 pages)
Series Democracy, citizenship, and constitutionalism
Democracy, citizenship, and constitutionalism.
Contents pt. 1. The federalization of naturalization -- pt. 2. A conditional citizenship -- pt. 3. War in the Supreme Court
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
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Subject Expatriation -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Citizenship, Loss of -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Citizenship -- United States -- History -- 20th century
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Civil Rights.
Citizenship
Citizenship, Loss of
Expatriation
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780812222128
0812222121
9781283898218
1283898217
0812206215
9780812206210