Come on, guys. Think a little. 1. You CAN revoke or renounce your citizenship. Generally this is done by showing up at a US embassy overseas and renouncing your citizenship in favor of citizenship in another country. I'm sure the method to do it in the US without gaining citizenship in another country is a little more complicated but possible.
2. You become a citizen one of two ways. You are either a natural born citizen which means you were born in the US or you are "naturalized" through a legal process. If you are natural born then your citizenship is defined by the US Constitution and there is no provision for it being revoked. In fact, Congress can pass no law altering or adding to what is in the Constitution so the Congress cannot pass a law revoking the citizenship of a natural born citizen. If you are a naturalized citizen, there are specific reasons for which your citizenship can be revoked. They are strictly defined in the immigration law. I strongly suspect that Congress cannot revise that law and make that revision retroactive to citizenships granted before the revision. That would be an ex post facto law and that it unconstitutional as well. Ed$ --- In [email protected], "D Frank" <dfrank_robin...@...> wrote: > > Hmmm. Well, if the government claims the authority to revoke citizenship > for what it deems as 'terrorism', the people must have the reciprocal > authority to secede from a government for what we deem as 'terrorism'. > Threatening to revoke citizenship is much the same as a terrorism > threat. > > To actually revoke citizenship is personal deannextion - the person > becomes stateless. If government can declare one stateless, why cannot > one declare oneself 'stateless' or seceded? > > --- In [email protected], James C <jcpatriot@> wrote: > > > > > > > > This is dangerous. With everything that is going on lately, I think > this country is falling apart. I hope they don't take away my > citizenship because I am a libertarian. > > > James > > From: dcoakley@ > > To: jcpatriot@ > > Subject: Cafferty File: Tell Jack how you really feel Blog Archive - > Should govt. revoke citizenship of Americans involved in terrorism? > « - CNN.com Blogs > > Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 19:13:22 -0400 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > http://caffertyfile.blogs.cnn.com/2010/05/07/should-govt-revoke-citizens\ > hip-of-americans-involved-in-terrorism/?hpt=T2 > > _________________________________________________________________ > > The New Busy is not the too busy. Combine all your e-mail accounts > with Hotmail. > > > http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=multiaccount&ocid=PI\ > D28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_4 > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > >
