Mr. Chairman. maybe I can throw a little light on this subject. The doctrine of expatriation is distinctively a principle of American foreign policy. namely. that a person who leaves one country and becomes the citizen of another by naturalization thereby divests himself of citizenship in the country which he left and of all obligations to that country. That principle. however. is maintained by hardly any other country. Decisions of the Supreme Court so late. I think. as 1829 doubted or denied the doctrine. An opinion was given by Caleb Cushion. our Attorney General. expressing limitations upon the right. So late as 1850 Secretaries of State refused interposition on behalf of naturalized citizens who returned to their native land. When James Buchanan was Secretary of State he took strong grounds in favor of the principle. and was. I may say. a lifelong advocate of it.
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