Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nipped in the bud, otherwise it might destroy all of the gains against Communism in South Viet Nam. It is the decision of the provisional Legislative Council to authorize new citizens of Chinese origin to stand for provincial councils and for Parliament only five years after acquiring Vietnamese citizenship. Under Ngo Dinh Diem's regime, the Chinese here were at first prevented from practicing dozens of professions. Such a prohibition was soon neutralized by a decision to give masses of them Vietnamese citizenship, thus making deeper and steadier Chinese control over the Viet Nam economy. There is no proof...
...British defendant (or plaintiff) cannot afford a lawyer. Most British courts, though not all, offer the same aid to accused Americans. Convicted aliens are commonly sentenced to buy a one-way ticket home. So easy is Britain on errant Americans that arrested Britons have been known to claim U.S. citizenship...
Bayonets, Gently Applied. In the U.S. Congress, a coalition of Radical and moderate Republicans repudiated the Johnson governments in the South. Down to secessionist territory streamed federal troops. The area was divided into five military districts, and Northern bayonets enforced the investment of Negroes with full citizenship...
This, after all, was what the Civil War had been fought for. And the Republican Radicals were quite within their rights in insisting on full Negro citizenship. Historian Stampp's premise is that the insistence was gently applied, despite the bayonets, and considering the fact that, after all, these were victors dealing with the vanquished. All that the North ever demanded, in fact, was full equality for the Negro South; and if the conquered white South had complied, the armed troops would have been withdrawn...
...whatever their motives, these postwar Republicans were the men whose "program included the granting of citizenship, civil rights, and the ballot to American Negroes." Their monuments are the 14th (due process and equal protection of the laws) and 15th (right to vote) Amendments, which heavily affected the North as well as the South and which perhaps could have been passed in no other...