The interpretation of silence in the Poe cases This is known as jus soli, the law of the soil. Any person born abroad of a Canadian parent is also a citizen. The soil and the blood There is no relevant constitutional provision that vests natural-born status on the basis of birth on Phi...
The Blood Libel in North America: Jews, Law, and Citizenship in the Early 20th CenturyWhile Mendel Beilis stood trial for murder in Ukraine, the small Jewish population of Quebec City in Canada pursued legal action against perpetrators of the blood libel. This article traces the attempts by ...
The definition ofcitizenshipwas important for the purposes of private law because certain parts applied only to citizens (jus civile). Noncitizens could be eitherLatini, inhabitants of Roman settlements that had the rights of members of the originalLatin League, orperegrini, who were members of fo...
causa,lawsuit,suit,case,cause- a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy; "the family brought suit against the landlord" adoption- a legal proceeding that creates a parent-child relation between persons not related by blood; the adopte...
Library of Congress 1924: Indian Citizenship Act Citizenship for Native Americans before the 1924 Indian Citizenship Act was hard to come by. Before the Civil War, only those with one-half or less Native American blood were offered citizenship. Most Native American women who had married U.S. ...
“right of blood”), whichallocatescitizenship based on the individual’s organic ties (through family decent) to the national community and the homeland. In contrast, citizenship allocation based on a principle ofjus soli(“right of the soil”) presupposes acivic-republicanconceptionof the core...
Library of Congress 1924: Indian Citizenship Act Citizenship for Native Americans before the 1924 Indian Citizenship Act was hard to come by. Before the Civil War, only those with one-half or less Native American blood were offered citizenship. Most Native American women who had married U.S. ...
Before the Civil War, only those with one-half or less Native American blood were offered citizenship. Most Native American women who had married U.S. citizens were offered citizenship by 1888, and in 1919, veterans of Native American descent who had fought in World War I could naturalize. ...
Library of Congress 1924: Indian Citizenship Act Citizenship for Native Americans before the 1924 Indian Citizenship Act was hard to come by. Before the Civil War, only those with one-half or less Native American blood were offered citizenship. Most Native American women who had married U...
Before the Civil War, only those with one-half or less Native American blood were offered citizenship. Most Native American women who had married U.S. citizens were offered citizenship by 1888, and in 1919, veterans of Native American descent who had fought in World War I could naturalize. ...