The Sovereign Citizen: Denaturalization And The Origins Of The American Republic (Democracy, Citizenship, And Constitutionalism),New

The Sovereign Citizen: Denaturalization And The Origins Of The American Republic (Democracy, Citizenship, And Constitutionalism),New

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Presentday 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 chooseat home or abroad. Denaturalization and denationalization are more often associated with twentiethcentury authoritarian regimes. But there was a time when Americanborn and naturalized foreignborn individuals in the United States could be deprived of their citizenship and its associated rights. Patrick Weil examines the twentiethcentury 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, in part, by the parameters that could be used to revoke that same citizenship.The Sovereign Citizen begins with the Naturalization Act of 1906, which was intended to prevent realization of citizenship through fraudulent or illegal means. Denaturalizationa process provided for by one clause of the actbecame the main instrument for the transfer of naturalization authority from states and local courts to the federal government. Alongside the federalization of naturalization, a conditionality of citizenship emerged: for the first half of the twentieth century, naturalized individuals could be stripped of their citizenship not only for fraud but also for affiliations with activities or organizations that were perceived as unAmerican. (Emma Goldman's case was the first and perhaps bestknown denaturalization on political grounds, in 1909.) By midcentury the Supreme Court was fiercely debating cases and challenged the constitutionality of denaturalization and denationalization. This internal battle lasted almost thirty years. The Warren Court's eventual decision to uphold the sovereignty of the citizennot the statesecures our national order to this day. Weil's account of this transformation, and the political battles fought by its advocates and critics, reshapes our understanding of American citizenship.

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