Session #78 · 1943–45

Speech #780163043

It seems to me that the most dangerous part of this amendment is the fact that you have 2.000 naturalization courts in this country. Now I just want to call your attention to the language of the amendment of the gentleman from California: Such a formal. written renunciation of nationality or signing a document or form of the United States Government containing such statements or answers as will support a finding of a naturalization court. that such a person has. in fact. denationalized himself by exercising his inherent natural right to divest himself of his nationality. What that means is this. as I take it. that I can hale into court on my own motion. because this is a civil procedure. any person for any statement that he made in writing on a Government form. This would give me the right. for example. as a citizen. to haul him into any naturalization court of this country. and I might say there are 2.000 of them. and make him accountable in a civil prot. ceeding before that court. for any statement that he made in writing on a Government form or any answer to some questionnaire that the Government had made outand God knows there are millions of them around the country. It would have no semblance of a fornial proceeding. You could have as many o1 such proceedings as you have people who wanted to bring it.
Keywords matched
naturalization

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
100%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
JOHN BENNETT
Party
R
Chamber
H
State
MI
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
780163043
Paragraph
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