Trump v. Barbara · ¶360

Opposition to dual nationality was especially strong after the Civil War. “The country had just emerged from a civil war that cost the lives of over 600,000 men due to a treasonous denial of allegiance to the Union—the United States. Going forward, there would be no national citizenship absent a reasonable expectation of national allegiance.” Lash, 101 Notre Dame L. Rev., at 141 (emphasis deleted). An 1868 congressional report explained that if a person was a national of both his home country and the country of his birthplace, it could “expos[e]” him to competing claims for “compulsory military service,” or could cause him to be “summoned to fight for Governments with which [he] ha[s] no connections, and against those with which [his] fortunes are indissolubly united.” Report of 1868, at 100; accord, Kawakita v. United States, 343 U. S. 717, 733, 736 (1952). “The intimate association of…

slip opinion, revised 7/01/26
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