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Rogers Vs. Bellei

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Apr 05, 1971

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  1. United States Vs. Ginsberg US Supreme Court · Apr 09, 1917
  2. Afroyim Vs. Rusk US Supreme Court · May 29, 1967
  3. Perez Vs. Brownell US Supreme Court · Mar 31, 1958
  4. Montana Vs. Kennedy US Supreme Court · May 22, 1961
  5. United States Vs. Wong US Supreme Court · May 23, 1977
  6. Kennedy Vs. Mendoza-martinez US Supreme Court · Feb 18, 1963
  7. Minor Vs. Happersett US Supreme Court · Jan 01, 1874
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  8. Elk Vs. Wilkins US Supreme Court · Nov 03, 1884
  9. Labine Vs. Vincent US Supreme Court · Mar 29, 1971
  10. U.S. 815 (1971) U.S. Supreme Court Rogers v. Bellei
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  11. U.S. 815 (1971) Rogers v. Bellei
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  12. years between the ages of 14 and 28. The three-judge District Court held the section unconstitutional, citing Afroyim v. Rusk
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  13. U. S. 253 , and Schneider v. Rusk
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  14. and its imposition is not unreasonable, arbitrary, or unlawful. Afroyim v. Rusk
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  15. supra, and Schneider v. Rusk
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  16. b) was unconstitutional, citing Afroyim v. Rusk
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  17. U. S. 253 (1967), and Schneider v. Rusk
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  18. U. S. 163 (1964), and sustained the plaintiff's summary judgment motion. Bellei v. Rusk
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  19. the three-judge District Court are, of course, of particular significance here. Page 401 U. S. 821 Schneider v. Rusk
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  20. and the Constitution's distinctions between native-born and naturalized citizens. Afroyim v. Rusk
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  21. individual, is exhausted, citing Mr. Chief Justice Marshall's well known but not uncontroversial dictum in Osborn v. Bank
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  22. U.S. at 387 U. S. 263 . Perez v. Brownell
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  23. is that the 1790, 1795, and 1802 Acts read retrospectively, while the 1855 Act reads prospectively as well. See Weedin v. Chin
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  24. Bow, 274 U. S. 657 , 274 U. S. 664 (1927), and Montana v. Kennedy
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  25. too, that, if Mr. Bellei had been born in 1933, instead of in 1939, he would have no claim even today. Montana v. Kennedy
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  26. to rights of inheritance and of citizenship of persons born abroad of parents who were British subjects. United States v. Won
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  27. Weedin v. Chin
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  28. and not subject to change by mere statute. Afroyim v. Rusk
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  29. States, being naturalized in the United States, and being subject to its jurisdiction are concerned. United States v. Wong
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  30. U. S. 472 , 243 U. S. 475 (1917). See United States v. Ness
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  31. Maney v. United
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  32. aliens. Congress Page 401 U. S. 831 responded to that situation only by enacting the 1855 statute. Montana v. Kennedy
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  33. because of the withholding of that benefit by Congress, citizenship by such descent was not bestowed. United States v. Wong
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  34. American father, and withheld completely from the child of a United States citizen mother and an alien father. Montana v. Kennedy
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  35. challenge. 1. The Congress has an appropriate concern with problems attendant on dual nationality. Savornan v. Page
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  36. also creates problems for the governments involved. MR. JUSTICE BRENNAN recognized this when, concurring in Kennedy v. Mendoza-Martinez
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  37. In a famous case, MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS wrote of the problem of dual citizenship. Kawakita v. United
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  38. intimations in the decided cases that a dual national constitutionally may be required to make an election. In Perkins v. Elg
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  39. In Kawakita v. United
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  40. can be deprived of his American citizenship through an Act of Congress. In Mandoli v. Acheson
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  41. already had emphasized the importance of residence in this country as the talisman of dedicated attachment, Weedin v. Chin
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  42. Schneider Page 401 U. S. 835 v. Rusk
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  43. fact that even Fourteenth Amendment citizenship by naturalization, when unlawfully procured, may be set aside. Afroyim v. Rusk
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  44. Indeed, the concept of a hierarchy of citizenship, suggested by the majority opinion, was flatly rejected in Schneider v. Rusk
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  45. situated should for constitutional purposes be considered as naturalized citizens is to be found in United States v. Wong
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  46. of naturalization. This inclusive definition has been adopted in several opinions of this Court besides United States v. Wong
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  47. Kim Ark, supra. Thus, in Minor v. Happersett
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  48. And in Elk v. Wilkins
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  49. joins, dissenting. Since the Court this Term has already downgraded citizens receiving public welfare, Wyman v. James
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  50. U. S. 309 (1971), and citizens having the misfortune to be illegitimate, Labine v. Vincent
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