{"product_id":"the-sovereign-citizen-9780812222128","title":"The Sovereign Citizen","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePresent-day Americans may feel secure in their citizenship, but there was a time when citizens could be denationalized. Patrick Weil examines the twentieth-century legal procedures, causes, and enforcement of denaturalization to illuminate an important and neglected dimension of American citizenship, sovereignty, and federal authority.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An important, exhaustive, and meticulously researched work\" * \u003ci\u003eDissent\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"In vividly depicting the long struggle to secure the citizenship rights of Americans, Weil treats us to striking insights as well as delicious tidbits of newly discovered data.\" * Norman Dorsen, former President of the American Civil Liberties Union *\u003cbr\u003e\"One of the world's leading experts on nationality brilliantly explores past campaigns to strip Americans of their citizenship. Patrick Weil reveals how both bureaucratic rigor and national security zeal threatened citizenship rights, and points to important lessons for twenty-first century debates.\" * Gerald Neuman, Harvard Law School *\u003cbr\u003e\"In this masterful and timely book, Patrick Weil plunges deep into rarely used archives to write a new history of the shaping of American identity in the twentieth century, all the more important as we now debate the reform of immigration law. This story of belonging and exile has its heroes-defenders of civil liberties who deserve to be better known-and its scoundrels. Unlike many histories, it has a heartening conclusion.\" * Linda K. Kerber, author of \u003ci\u003eNo Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003cbr\u003e PART I. The Federalization of Naturalization\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Denaturalization, the Main Instrument of Federal Power\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. The Installment of the Bureau of Naturalization, 1909-1926\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. The Victory of the Federalization of Naturalization, 1926−1940\u003cbr\u003e PART II. A Conditional Citizenship\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. The First Political Denaturalization: Emma Goldman\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Radicals and Asians\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. In the Largest Numbers: The Penalty of Living Abroad\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. The Proactive Denaturalization Program During World War II\u003cbr\u003e PART III. War in the Supreme Court\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8.Schneiderman: A Republican Leader Defends a Communist\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9. Baumgartner: The Program Ends, but Denaturalizationn Continues\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 10. A Frozen Interlude in the Cold War\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 11. Nishikawa, Perez, Trop: \"The Most Important Constitutional Pronouncements of This Century\"\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 12. American Citizenship Is Secured: \"May Perez Rest in Peace!\"\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Appendix 1. Emma Goldman, \"A Woman Without a Country\"\u003cbr\u003e From Mother Earth (1909)\u003cbr\u003e From Free Vistas (1933)\u003cbr\u003e Appendix 2. Chiefs of the Naturalization Bureau and Evolution of Departmental Responsibilities\u003cbr\u003e Appendix 3. Naturalization Cancellations in the United States, 1907−1973\u003cbr\u003e Appendix 4. Americans Expatriated, by Grounds and Year, 1945−1977\u003cbr\u003e Appendix 5. Supreme Court and Other Important Court Decisions Related to Denaturalization and Nonvoluntary Expatriation from Schneiderman and Participating Supreme Court Justices\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Archival Sources and Interviews\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405700014423,"sku":"9780812222128","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812222128.jpg?v=1730493324","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-sovereign-citizen-9780812222128","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}