Trump v. Barbara · ¶241

father returned with him to Switzerland. President Hayes’s Acting Secretary of State Frederick Seward rejected his claim. Although Speck may have been able to claim citizenship had he been domiciled in the United States, Seward denied his claim because “his status, as well as his domicil, according to the well-understood principles of international and municipal law, follows that of the father until the boy attains his majority.” Letter from Acting Sec. of State F. Seward to H. Fish (Aug. 20, 1878), in id., at 396.  Ludwig Hausding was denied citizenship after being born in the United States to parents domiciled in Saxony. Hausding’s parents were “Saxon subjects, temporarily in the United States.” Letter from Sec. of State F. Frelinghuysen to J. Kasson (Jan. 15, 1885), in Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States 395 (1886). President Cleveland’s Secretary of State…

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