Word: citizenships
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Darjeeling, an Indian district in the Himalayan foothills, is home to some of the world's best tea. It is also home to 600,000 Gurkhas, an ethnic group that has feelings of second-class citizenship. They have mobilized under the % leadership of the Gurkha National Liberation Front to seek an autonomous state within India...
Almost 40 years after Dred Scott, well after the Civil War and the l3th, l4th and l5th Amendments had guaranteed the long-denied citizenship and rights within all the United States, the court did it again. Seizing on the 14th Amendment's phrase "equal protection under the law," it upheld, in Plessy vs. Ferguson, a Louisiana statute mandating separate but "equal" public facilities for blacks. Indeed, those challenging Rehnquist's nomination cite a memorandum he once wrote stating, "I think Plessy vs. Ferguson was right and should be reaffirmed...
...restrict the movement of blacks within the country did not end restrictions on the 4 million blacks in South Africa who are technically residents of four tribal homelands that chose to become so-called independent states: Transkei, Ciskei, Bophuthatswana and Venda. Despite government pledges that they could be granted citizenship in both their homelands and South Africa, they are now treated as aliens who must apply for residence and work permits whenever they move. Although the government promised not to enforce these alien requirements while negotiations over dual citizenship continue, it could do so at any time. The white-owned...
...Chief Justice Warren Burger led the new Americans, live and remote, in reciting the Oath of Allegiance. Off-camera, Burger was followed by U.S. District Court Judge Mark A. Costantino, the son of parents from Rome and Naples, who exhorted the crowd with a more plain-spoken vision of citizenship: "Take a real good look at each other. What do you see? You see people of all races, all colors, all creeds. What do we do in America when we meet people? We shake hands. C'mon, shake hands! When you've shaken hands, you can say that...
...early as 1438, and died in 1533. He was said to have been arrogant, prickly and a freethinker, but an exceptional teacher; his artistic disciples in Nuremberg were many. His relations with the powers that were do not seem to have been easy. In 1477 he renounced his Nuremberg citizenship and departed for Cracow, in Poland, where he worked for nearly 20 years. In 1503, after getting back to Nuremberg, he forged a promissory note to extract money from a businessman he believed had cheated him; Stoss, by now a man in his late 50s or early 60s, was branded...