Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French Morocco in 1944, went over the hill, was picked up the next day, convicted of desertion and sent out with a dishonorable discharge. In 1952 he applied for a passport and was refused on grounds, clearly supported by a congressional act, that his desertion had cost him his citizenship. Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote the majority opinion, with Justices Hugo Black, William O. Douglas and Charles Evans Whittaker joining. William Brennan concurred. Felix Frankfurter, Harold Burton, Tom Clark and John Marshall Harlan dissented. The upshot: 5 to 4 in favor of citizenship for Trop...
...week wrote twelve separate opinions, split with a fundamental bitterness unknown since 1946, when Justice Robert Jackson began feuding in public with Justice Hugo Black. As it happened, last week's cases had to do with the right of the U.S. to deprive native-born Americans of their citizenship for such acts as desertion or voting in the elections of a foreign country. But in their sum and substance, the Supreme Court's unvarnished differences went to a far more basic point: the power of the judicial branch of government to overrule the judgment of the legislative branch...
Wrote Warren for the majority: "The judiciary has the duty of implementing the constitutional safeguards that protect individual rights. When the Government acts to take away the fundamental right of citizenship, the safeguards of the Constitution should be examined with special diligence." Added Warren: "In some Si instances since this court was established, it has determined that congressional action exceeded the bounds of the Constitution. It is so in this case...
...Marlboro, Mass., faculty and students of Marlboro High School chose 18-year-old Ilse Naujoks, third-ranking student in her class, for a good-citizenship award given annually by the Daughters of the American Revolution, got turned down flatly by the Daughters. Reason: Ilse, daughter of German refugee parents, has never been naturalized. With unsinkable illogic, National D.A.R. President General Mrs. Frederic A. Groves explained the ban: "It is natural to assume that a good-citizenship award in a high school in the U.S. would go to a citizen of this country...
...century, was determined with soul of fire that the gates of opportunity would not snap shut. ''I preach the gospel of hope ... I ask that we see to it in our country thaf the line of division in the deeper matters of our citizenship be drawn, never between section and section, never between creed and creed, never, thrice never, between class and class; but that the line be drawn on the line of conduct...