{"id":36,"date":"2005-03-01T09:48:44","date_gmt":"2005-03-01T13:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/2005\/03\/01\/dual-citizenship-folly\/"},"modified":"2005-03-01T09:48:44","modified_gmt":"2005-03-01T13:48:44","slug":"dual-citizenship-folly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/2005\/03\/01\/dual-citizenship-folly\/","title":{"rendered":"Dual citizenship folly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a49'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Bruce Fein (The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\">Washington Times<\/a>, Published March 1, 2005)<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; Americans who vote in a foreign election, occupy any office in a<br \/>\nforeign state, enlist in a foreign army, attempt to overthrow the U.S.<br \/>\ngovernment, or otherwise affirm allegiance to a foreign nation should<br \/>\nforfeit their citizenship. Accomplishing that is clouded by the United<br \/>\nStates Supreme Court decision in Afroyim v. Rusk (1967). There, a<br \/>\nnarrow 5-4 majority held unconstitutional a statute that made voting in<br \/>\na political election in a foreign state a justification for revoking<br \/>\ncitizenship acquired by naturalization.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Writing for the court, Justice Hugo Black broadly<br \/>\nsermonized that the 14th Amendment permits loss of citizenship only by<br \/>\nvoluntary relinquishment. Obeying that edict, current federal law makes<br \/>\na specific intent to relinquish United States nationality the<br \/>\ntouchstone for its loss.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Congress should either propose a constitutional<br \/>\namendment to overcome Afroyim; or, enact legislation that deletes the<br \/>\nspecific intent requirement in the expectation that the high court will<br \/>\nreconsider the precedent. Dual allegiances do not imminently threaten<br \/>\nthe fabric of the United States. But they fuel a yawning indifference<br \/>\nto American customs and civic spirit indispensable to national vitality.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Bruce Fein (The Washington Times, Published March 1, 2005) &#8230; Americans who vote in a foreign election, occupy any office in a foreign state, enlist in a foreign army, attempt to overthrow the U.S. government, or otherwise affirm allegiance to a foreign nation should forfeit their citizenship. Accomplishing that is clouded by the United [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[427],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}