Trump v. Barbara · ¶171
Thus, the view of the Executive Branch was that when a person acquires an American “domicil,” the law “enjoins upon other nations to respect him, in regard to protection, as an American citizen.” Letter from Sec. of State W. Marcy to B. Hülsemann (Sept. 26, 1853), in Correspondence Between the Secretary of State and the Charge D’Affaires of Austria Relative to the Case of Martin Koszta 18 (1853) (Koszta); see also Report of the Committee on Foreign Affairs Concerning the Rights of American Citizens in Foreign States, in Cong. Globe, 40th Cong., 2d Sess., App. 100 (1868) (Report of 1868). “Domicil confers a national character; it does not allow any one who has a domicil to decline the national character thus conferred.” Koszta 18. His status “remains as long as the domicil is retained, and is changed with it.” Id., at 20; see also Cong. Globe, 37th Cong., 3d Sess., 992 (1863) (statement…Read in context ›
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