 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...  The Annual Register - Page 244edited by - 1869Full view - About this book
 | Benjamin La Fevre - 1884 - 532 pages
...declare that the right of expatriation is beyond the lawful control of government: SEC. 1999. 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 Sewall Boutwell - 1884 - 264 pages
...and the consequent duty of the United States Government was also set forth in these words: "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... | |
 | Thomas Valentine Cooper, Hector Tyndale Fenton - 1884 - 530 pages
...declare that the right of expatriation is beyond the lawful control of government : SEC. 1999. Whereas the right of expatriation is a natural and inherent...enjoyment of the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; and 287 Whereas in the recognition of this principle this Government has freely received... | |
 | Alfred Howell - 1884 - 150 pages
...year, an Act of Congress was passed with a preamble containing the following declaration:— "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 Sewall Boutwell - 1884 - 266 pages
...was also set forth in these words: "Whereas the right of expatriation is a natural and inherent righ* 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... | |
 | 1884 - 1042 pages
...month. CHAP. C'CXLIX. — An act concerning the rights of American citizens in foreign states. WHEKEAS the right of expatriation is a natural and inherent right of all people, indispensab le to the enjoyment of the rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; and whereas... | |
 | 1885 - 524 pages
...laws of his native country. Ibid. 16. 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... | |
 | Christopher Gustavus Tiedeman - 1886 - 722 pages
...government of the United States is concerned, by an act of Congress in the following terms : — " 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 Breckenridge Davis - 1886 - 504 pages
...into the conventional law of the United States. In 1868 an Act of Congress was passed declaring that " the right of expatriation is a natural and inherent...enjoyment of the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." This act, which is declaratory in character, has never received judicial interpretation.... | |
 | G. Henry Horstmann - 1886 - 450 pages
...opposed to those of England and most other states. The preamble to the act of July 27, 1868, says, "The right of expatriation is a natural and inherent right of all peoples, indispensable to the enjoyment of the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness;"... | |
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