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Revision of Nationality Laws of the United States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2017

Richard W. Flournoy*
Affiliation:
International Law, National University Law School

Extract

It is to be hoped that one of the first measures to which Congress will give its attention during the next session will be the bill (H. R. 6127) “To revise and codify the nationality laws of the United States into a comprehensive nationality code.” This bill was introduced by the Honorable Samuel Dickstein, Chairman of the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization of the House of Representatives, May 3,1939. It embodies a draft nationality code, which was prepared under the direction of a committee composed of the Secretary of State, the Attorney General and the Secretary of Labor, in pursuance of an Executive Order of April 25, 1933. The cabinet committee submitted its report June 1, 1938, upon the basis of extensive studies and conferences by officials of the three Departments, and the report was submitted to Congress with a message of the President dated June 13, 1938.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 1940

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References

* Copies of the printed report may be obtained from the Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C, price 20 cents.

1 Columbia University Press, 1939, p. 23 et seq.

2 One of the greatest champions of the right of peoples to governthemselves was Woodrow Wilson, and when he wrote his history, he gave it the title, “A History of the American People.”

3 Vol. 9 (1915), pp. 870-882.

4 21 Wallace 162.

5 1 Annals, 1st Cong., 1109-1117.

6 15 Stat. 223.

7 Revised Statutes, Secs. 1999-2001.

8 Malloy, Treaties, Conventions, etc.

9 For. Rel., 1873, Vol. 2, p. 1186 et seq.

10 S. Res. No. 30, 59th Cong., 1st sess.

11 H. Doc. No. 326, 59th Cong., 2d sess.

12 34 Stat. 596.

13 Camardo v. Tillinghast, 29 F. (2d) 527, and eases cited.

14 See discussion by the author in the American Bar Association Journal for December, 1934.

15 For an interesting description of alien Americans arriving at the Port of New York see Richard O. Boyer’s article, “Back Where They Came From,” The New Yorker, Oct. 21, 1939.

16 3 Moore, Int. Law Digest, § 430.

17 Flournoy, , “Dual Nationality and Election,” 30 Yale Law Journal, 550 Google Scholar.

18 Treaty Series, No. 913.

19 Slaughter House Cases, 16 Wall. 36.

20 239 U S. 299.

21 With regard to the question under consideration, see also Ex parte Griffin, 237 Fed. 445.

22 231 U. S. 9.

23 Vol. 2, p. 193.