The Perpetual Migration Machine and Political Power

Abstract

The historian and diplomat George Bancroft declared in 1849 that a nation should soon tolerate a man with two wives as a man with two countries. This is no longer so if, indeed, it ever was. In 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down most laws forbidding dual citizenship. However, the State Department did not formally acknowledge the courts decision until 1990, when it sent a memorandum to U.S. consulates around the world effectively directing them to make it easier for dual nationals to retain U.S. citizenship. Since then, many nations have begun to promote dual citizenship, absentee balloting, and even homeland legislative seats for their citizens settled abroad.

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