Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...People, for a time was burdened with two amendments which would have excluded 15 million U. S. inhabitants from any representation whatsoever. This peculiar perversion of the bill's intent resulted from sectional prejudices and was accomplished by misinterpreting representation according to population as representation according to citizenship...
...District Court in Illinois refused to grant her citizenship. In the U. S. Supreme Court, whither the case was carried, Mme. Schwimmer writhed with resentment as Acting U. S. Solicitor-General Alfred A. Wheat told the court that, if "an ordinary American housewife" held her beliefs it wouldn't matter, but that in the "brilliant Schwimmer mind'' those same beliefs were dangerous...
...Justice Holmes, a most liberal and learned member of the high court, dissented with brilliant vigor, drawing Justices Brandeis and Sanford to his reasoning. Because Mme. Schwimmer believed ardently in peace at any price, Mr. Justice Holmes could see no reason to deny her citizenship on that account. Declared...
...particular improvement, looking to the abolition of war, seems to me not materially different . . . from a wish to establish Cabinet government or a single House or a term of seven years for the President. ... To touch a more burning question, only a judge mad with partisanship would exclude [from citizenship] because the applicant thought the 18th Amendment should be repealed...
...renounced her allegiance to Hungary. New York's Congressman Anthony J. Griffin introduced in the House an amendment to the Naturalization Laws to meet Mme. Schwimmer's case, to prevent "philosophic opinions with respect to the lawfulness of war" from barring an alien from citizenship. Said Mr. Griffin: "I do not see why aliens holding the views of Senator Borah ... on the unlawfulness of war should be debarred from citizenship...