 | United States - 1869 - 878 Seiten
...1868. CHAP. CCXLIX. — An Act concerning the Rights of American Citizens in foreign Slates. 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 ; and whereas... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1869 - 672 Seiten
...to the House of Representatives by General Banks on the 20th of February. The preamble declared, “ 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, for the... | |
 | William Beach Lawrence - 1871 - 162 Seiten
...emphatically proclaimed in the act already referred to, which passed Congress in 1868. It declares that " 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. Any declaration,... | |
 | United States. Department of State - 1873 - 314 Seiten
...stated, to which I respectfully make answer as follows : Quretio* I. The law-making power having declared that 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, (15 US... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 1874 - 834 Seiten
...HAMILTON FISH, Secretar)/ of State. QUESTIONS. EXECUTIVE MANSION, I. The law-making power having declared that " 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," (15 Stat.... | |
 | Henry Flanders - 1874 - 296 Seiten
...principle that allegiance is intrinsic and perpetual. In that act Congress has assumed and declared that 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; and declared... | |
 | Herbert Broom, Edward Alfred Hadley - 1875 - 966 Seiten
...has finally settled the rule so far as the government of the United States is concerned : " 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 ; and whereas,... | |
 | John Lambert Cadwalader, United States. Department of State - 1877 - 308 Seiten
...change in his nationality. n>. 15. The declaration in the act of 1868, (15 Stat., 223; ES, § 1999,) that the right of expatriation is " a natural and inherent right of all people," comprehends our own citizens as well as those of other countries; and where a citizen of the United... | |
 | Benjamin Vaughan Abbott - 1879 - 1054 Seiten
...July 27, 1868, congress declared the policy of the United States on the subject as follows: Whereas the right of expatriation is a natural and inherent right of all people. indispensable to the enjoyment of the right» of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; and whereas... | |
 | William Edward Hall - 1880 - 776 Seiten
...between the United States and England; and in 1868 an act passed both houses of Congress affirming that ' 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,' and enacting... | |
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Williams, 1873. The declaration in the act of July 27,1868, chap. 249, that the right of expatriation is " a natural and inherent right of all people," applies to citizens of the United States as well as to those of other countries. 14 Op., 
