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  2. United States nationality law - Wikipedia

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    United States, 343 U.S. 717 (1952) that dual nationality is a long-recognized status in the law and that "a person may have and exercise rights of nationality in two countries and be subject to the responsibilities of both. The mere fact he asserts the rights of one nationality does not, without more, mean that he renounces the other". [148]

  3. Birthright citizenship in the United States - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 16 February 2025. Person's acquisition of United States citizenship by virtue of the circumstances of birth For laws regarding U.S. citizenship, see United States nationality law. For U.S. citizenship (birthright and naturalized), see Citizenship of the United States. United States citizenship and ...

  4. Citizenship Clause - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 16 February 2025. First sentence of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution The Citizenship Clause is the first sentence of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which was adopted on July 9, 1868, which states: All persons born or naturalized in the United States ...

  5. Jus sanguinis - Wikipedia

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    Article 8 of the Estonian Constitution states that every child with at least one parent who is an Estonian citizen shall have the right, by birth, to Estonian citizenship. Finland: Finnish nationality law France: French nationality law [37] Germany: German nationality law. Any person born to a German-citizen parent is a German citizen.

  6. Citizenship of the United States - Wikipedia

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    United States citizens can relinquish their citizenship, which involves abandoning the right to reside in the United States and all the other rights and responsibilities of citizenship. [104] " Relinquishment" is the legal term covering all seven different potentially-expatriating acts (ways of giving up citizenship) under 8 U.S.C. § 1481(a) .

  7. Natural-born-citizen clause (United States) - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 7 February 2025. Clause of the US Constitution specifying natural born US citizenship to run for President Status as a natural-born citizen of the United States is one of the eligibility requirements established in the United States Constitution for holding the office of president or vice president. This ...

  8. Timeline of civil marriage in the United States - Wikipedia

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    1929 – All states now have laws regarding marriage licenses. 1933 – Married women granted right to citizenship independent of their husbands. 1948 – California Supreme Court overturns interracial marriage ban (Perez v. Sharp). 1965 – The Supreme Court overturns laws prohibiting married couples from using contraception (Griswold v.

  9. Nationality law - Wikipedia

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    Separately from this right, the Irish minister responsible for immigration may dispense with conditions of naturalisation to grant nationality to an applicant who "is of Irish descent or Irish associations," under section 15 of the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act, 1986. With rare exceptions the applicant must be resident in the island of ...