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The Sovereign Citizen: Denaturalization and the Origins of the American Republic

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Description for The Sovereign Citizen: Denaturalization and the Origins of the American Republic Paperback. 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. Series: Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; LNDA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.

Present-day Americans feel secure in their citizenship: they are free to speak up for any cause, oppose their government, marry a person of any background, and live where they choose—at home or abroad. Denaturalization and denationalization are more often associated with twentieth-century authoritarian regimes. But there was a time when American-born and naturalized foreign-born individuals in the United States could be deprived of their citizenship and its associated rights. Patrick Weil examines the twentieth-century legal procedures, causes, and enforcement of denaturalization to illuminate an important but neglected dimension of Americans' understanding of sovereignty and federal authority: a citizen is defined, ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Series
Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812222128
SKU
V9780812222128
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About Patrick Weil
Patrick Weil is Senior Research Fellow at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and Professor at the Paris School of Economics. He is author of numerous books, including How to Be French: Nationality in the Making Since 1789.

Reviews for The Sovereign Citizen: Denaturalization and the Origins of the American Republic
"An important, exhaustive, and meticulously researched work"
Dissent
"In vividly depicting the long struggle to secure the citizenship rights of Americans, Weil treats us to striking insights as well as delicious tidbits of newly discovered data."
Norman Dorsen, former President of the American Civil Liberties Union
"One of the world's leading experts on nationality brilliantly explores ... Read more

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