{"product_id":"the-sovereign-citizen-denaturalization-and-the-origins-of-the-american-republic-paperback-softback-9780812222128","title":"The Sovereign Citizen; Denaturalization and the Origins of the American Republic (Paperback \/ softback) 9780812222128","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Sovereign Citizen\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eDenaturalization and the Origins of the American Republic\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePatrick Weil (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812222128\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 23 November 2012\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e296 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.462 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"An important, exhaustive, and meticulously researched work\" (\u003ci\u003eDissent\u003c\/i\u003e) \"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 past campaigns to strip Americans of their citizenship. Patrick Weil reveals how both bureaucratic rigor and national security zeal threatened citizenship rights, and points to important lessons for twenty-first century debates.\" (Gerald Neuman, Harvard Law School) \"In this masterful and timely book, Patrick Weil plunges deep into rarely used archives to write a new history of the shaping of American identity in the twentieth century, all the more important as we now debate the reform of immigration law. This story of belonging and exile has its heroes-defenders of civil liberties who deserve to be better known-and its scoundrels. Unlike many histories, it has a heartening conclusion.\" (Linda K. Kerber, author of \u003ci\u003eNo Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePresent-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, in part, by the parameters that could be used to revoke that same citizenship.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Sovereign Citizen\u003c\/i\u003e begins with the Naturalization Act of 1906, which was intended to prevent realization of citizenship through fraudulent or illegal means. Denaturalization-a process provided for by one clause of the act-became 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 un-American. (Emma Goldman's case was the first and perhaps best-known 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 \u003ci\u003ecitizen\u003c\/i\u003e-not the state-secures 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003cbr\u003e PART I. The Federalization of Naturalization\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Denaturalization, the Main Instrument of Federal Power\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. The Installment of the Bureau of Naturalization, 1909-1926\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. The Victory of the Federalization of Naturalization, 1926−1940\u003cbr\u003e PART II. A Conditional Citizenship\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. The First Political Denaturalization: Emma Goldman\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Radicals and Asians\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. In the Largest Numbers: The Penalty of Living Abroad\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. The Proactive Denaturalization Program During World War II\u003cbr\u003e PART III. War in the Supreme Court\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8.Schneiderman: A Republican Leader Defends a Communist\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9. Baumgartner: The Program Ends, but Denaturalizationn Continues\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 10. A Frozen Interlude in the Cold War\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 11. Nishikawa, Perez, Trop: \"The Most Important Constitutional Pronouncements of This Century\"\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 12. American Citizenship Is Secured: \"May Perez Rest in Peace!\"\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Appendix 1. Emma Goldman, \"A Woman Without a Country\"\u003cbr\u003e From Mother Earth (1909)\u003cbr\u003e From Free Vistas (1933)\u003cbr\u003e Appendix 2. Chiefs of the Naturalization Bureau and Evolution of Departmental Responsibilities\u003cbr\u003e Appendix 3. Naturalization Cancellations in the United States, 1907−1973\u003cbr\u003e Appendix 4. Americans Expatriated, by Grounds and Year, 1945−1977\u003cbr\u003e Appendix 5. Supreme Court and Other Important Court Decisions Related to Denaturalization and Nonvoluntary Expatriation from Schneiderman and Participating Supreme Court Justices\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Archival Sources and Interviews\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52555687919896,"sku":"9780812222128","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-sovereign-citizen-denaturalization-and-the-origins-of-the-american-republic-paperback-softback-9780812222128","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}