The Sovereign Citizen: Denaturalization and the Origins of the American Republic

by Patrick Weil

Book Overview

Present-day Americans feel secure in their citizenship: they are free to speak up for any cause, oppose their government, marry a person of any background, and live where they choose--at home or abroad. Denaturalization and denationalization are more often associated with twentieth-century authoritarian regimes. But there was a time when American-born and naturalized foreign-born individuals in the United States could be deprived of their citizenship...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812222121
• ISBN13: 9780812222128
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"