American citizenship : and the right of suffrage in the United States

Taliesin Evans

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MC-mLF ^^ ^^a Ql^ " ?:^.c^c THE0» 'uriwhvsitt; Tribune Print, Oakland, Cal. 1892. — CONTENTS. iAmerican Citizenship j Citizenship ....I.—Federai. 2^ II.—State . . . . . 54} 61V The Right of Suffrage ij I.—Voting Qualifications inthe Severai.States 85 / II. Voting Quawfications in the Territories 140 '7 III.—The District of Coi^umbia . . .141 ' absence. It is still the applicant shall have been a bonaof the law that the fide unbroken period ofresident of the United States for an lawfully admitted to citi-five years, to enable him to be resident may absentzenship. To what extent an alien sojourn in a foreignhimself from the countrj-, if at all, to in the Unitedcountry, and not lose his bona residencefide accruing to him underStates, and not forfeit the benefits that residence, is undeter-the naturalization laws from more right to leave thecountrymined. He may have no (i) Peters, ; i Cxanch, 186, 219, ; 1 Peters, 457.4 393 243 (a) Stat., 240.9 ; FEDERA.L CITIZENSHIP. 21 any purpose, or for any period of time, nomatternow for he had before the surplusage quotedhow brief, than was Congress; for, in leaving tlie country, hestricken out by dominion and jurisdiction of thepasses out of the United foreign subject, he owes no allegianceStates, and, being a allto the Federal government (i). At events, it is self- (i) There is nothing in any of the cases reported in the booksindicating that the applicant for citizenship may.

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• Citizenship

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• Nombre de lectures: 6
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 10 Mo

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'uriwhvsitt;
Tribune Print,
Oakland, Cal.
1892.—
CONTENTS.
iAmerican Citizenship
j
Citizenship ....I.—Federai. 2^
II.—State . . . . . 54}
61V The Right of Suffrage
ij I.—Voting Qualifications inthe Severai.States 85
/ II. Voting Quawfications in the Territories 140
'7 III.—The District of Coi^umbia .
. .141
</ IV.—Anai^ysis of Voting Quawfications
. 143
v.—OFFICE-H01.DINGAND THE E1.ECTIVEFranchise 147^
The Federal Constitution . . . .177JO
Amendments to the Constitution .
. 189
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Appendix .194
Index ........ 199