Word: citizenship
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Under a U.S. law a citizen who goes or stays abroad in wartime to avoid military service has been subject to loss of citizenship. Last week the Supreme Court struck down that law. It was the first time in five years that the court had declared an act of Congress unconstitutional...
...decision splintered the court even more than usual. Only Chief Justice Earl Warren joined Goldberg without ado. Hugo Black and William O. Douglas went along, but added their own farther-reaching view that "Congress has no power" to deprive a native-born citizen of citizenship. William J. Brennan Jr. wrote a separate concurring opinion. The other four Justices dissented, in two separate opinions, basically on the ground that, as Potter Stewart put it, loss of citizenship is not "punishment in the constitutional sense of that term," but an effect of a "regulatory measure" enacted to deal with a "basic problem...
...resolution to grant the first honorary U.S. citizenship* to Sir Winston Churchill, 88, bogged down in Congress recently, when worrywarts feared that the honor might later be passed out like green stamps. But the states may do the job piecemeal. Nebraska's legislature made Sir Winston a state citizen last week; Tennessee is about to do so this week. The man who once described himself as a living Anglo-American alliance already has scads of transatlantic ties, from honorary citizenship in the city of Jacksonville, Fla., to life membership in the Friendship Veterans Fire Engine Co. of Alexandria...
...even the Marquis de Lafayette, the French nobleman who fought beside George Washington, got U.S. citizenship directly. Granted citizenship in the ex-colonies of Maryland and Virginia, the Marquis (and all his male descendants) automatically thereby became a citizen of the Republic in 1788 when the Constitution was ratified...
...Paris to see herself in a revival of Rene Clair's 1931 screen classic, Le Million, Annabella, now a graceful 53, enjoyed the movie hugely. "It brought memories of an unforgettable youth-like an immense burst of laughter." She was sad, though, about one thing-the U.S. citizenship she gave up to return to France to care for her ailing mother. "In my heart I'm always an American...