Since then we have progressed onward and upward until we are far beyond that point. We have long ago repudiated that old medieval notion and by solemn statutory enactment announced a very different doctrine as the policy of the United States. Under the leadership of the United States most of the European nations have come to recognize the right of their citizens or subjects to emigrate and take on allegiance to another power. Under our policy. embodied in the statutes of this country. we recognize the right of an American to expatriate himself. and we hold that when one who is foreign born immigrates to this country and is duly naturalized under out law he is entitled at home and abroad to the same protection of life. liberty. and property that a nativeborn citizen is entitled to. Against that doctrine. among all of the great European powers. Russia alone stands opposed.
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