United States citizenship can be acquired by birthright in two situations: by virtue of the person's birth within United States territory while under the jurisdiction thereof, or because at least one
Dred Scott
U.S. Senator from Michigan Jacob M. Howard, author of the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
Mackenzie v. Hare
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Mackenzie v. Hare, 239 U.S. 299, is a United States Supreme Court case that upheld Section 3 of the Expatriation Act of 1907, which dictated that all American women who voluntarily married a foreign a
Political cartoon from the Chicago Eagle lampooning the Expatriation Act of 1907, following the 1922 enactment of the Cable Act