 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...  Annual Register - Page 250edited by - 1869Full view - About this book
 | 1885 - 550 pages
...Congress passed nearly at the same time with the signing of the treaty, this right is assumed to be "a natural and inherent right of all people, indispensable...enjoyment of the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness ; " and in the body of the act, " any declaration, instruction, opinion, order or decision... | |
 | United States. Department of State - 1875 - 760 pages
...States reads as follows: "Whereas the right of expatriation is a natural and inherent right of nil people, indispensable to the enjoyment of the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; and whereas, in the recognition of this principle, this Government has freely received... | |
 | William Beach Lawrence - 1871 - 162 pages
...EXPATRIATION. Act concerning the Rights of American Citizens in Foreign States, approved July 27, 1868. WHEREAS the right of expatriation is a natural and inherent...enjoyment of the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness ; and whereas in the recognition of this principle this government has freely received... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1873 - 860 pages
...concerned, by a very explicit and vigorous statute passed in July, 1808. Its preamble recites that the right of expatriation is a natural and inherent...of the rights of life, liberty, and the ; pursuit of happiness ; that in the recognition 1 of this principle, this government has freely I received emigrants... | |
 | John Chandler Bancroft Davis - 1873 - 260 pages
...nations or acts of Congress may impose; and Congress, in a late act, has expressed its opinion that " the right of expatriation is a natural and inherent...enjoyment of the rights of life, liberty, and the pnrsuit of happiness," and has enacted " that any declaration, instrnction, opinion, order, or decision... | |
 | United States. Department of Justice - 1875 - 782 pages
...1825, chap. 65. Ibid. EXPATRIATION. 1. 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," comprehends our own citizens as well as those of other countries ; and where a citizen of the United... | |
 | Henry Flanders - 1874 - 296 pages
...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...enjoyment of the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; and declared inconsistent with the fundamental principles of the government any declaration,... | |
 | Henry Flanders - 1874 - 322 pages
...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...enjoyment of the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; and declared inconsistent with the fundamental principles of the government any declaration,... | |
 | Robert Phillimore - 1874 - 904 pages
...United States the " question was settled by the Act of July 27, 1868, which " provides that, ' Whereas the right of expatriation is a " ' natural and inherent...enjoyment of the rights of life, liberty, and the pur" ' suit of happiness ; and whereas in the recognition of this " ' principle this Government has... | |
 | United States. Department of State - 1874 - 564 pages
...af"rTi"bie tS'Si 909..SEC. 1998. Every person who hereafter deserts riei.t rf, declared a uatllra i all( i inherent right of all people, indispensable to the...enjoyment of the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness ; and whereas in the recognition of this principle this Government has freely received... | |
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