...39; SC, 4 West Coast Rep. 275. Indeed, Congress has gone so far as to enact the following: " 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...

...into the conventional law of the United States. In 1868 an Act of Congress was passel declaring that " the right of expatriation is a natural and inherent...enjoyment of the rights of life, liberty, and the pursui: of happiness." This act, which is declaratory in character, has never received judicial interpretation....

...the United States. In 1868 an Act of Congress was passed declaring that " the_^g^t_pf_exp_atnation is a natural and inherent right of all people, indispensable...enjoyment of the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." This act, which is declaratory in character, has never received judicial interpretation....

...States Revised Statutes (27th July 1868, chap. 249) enact that, whereas the right of expatriation ia a natural and inherent right of all people, indispensable...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...

...the mother country. It was not until July 27, 1868, that by an act of Congress it was declared that " the right of expatriation is a natural and inherent...all people, indispensable to the enjoyment of the right of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," and that "any declaration, instruction, opinion,...

...for many years, and the congress of the United States, by an act adopted July 27, 1S08, declared that "the right of expatriation is a natural and inherent...all people, Indispensable to the enjoyment of the right of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," and prescribes "that any declaration, instruction,...

...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 right of all people, indispen(o) As to national statin of married women and infant children, vide post, chap. xx. ; and...

...the amending Act of 1872 and the two Conventions of Washington,] is printed at length. <l " ' sable to the enjoyment of the rights of life, liberty, and " ' the pursuit of happiness ; and whereas in the recog" 'nition of this principle this Government has freely " ' received...

...best seen by contrasting with it the preamble of the Act of July 27, 1868, on this subject: "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...

...which will be found in vi. the margin : * and, on the 27th of the following Julv> Congress enacted that "the right of expatriation is a natural and inherent...enjoyment of the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happi-' ness " ; that, " in the recognition of this principle this government has freely received...