Afroyim v. Rusk is a 1967
U.S. Supreme Court case which ruled that
American citizens may not be deprived of citizenship involuntarily. The U.S. government tried to revoke the citizenship of Beys Afroyim (pictured with his son), who had voted in an Israeli election after becoming a
naturalized American citizen, but the court decided that his right to retain his citizenship was guaranteed by the
Citizenship Clause of the
Fourteenth Amendment. It overruled Perez v. Brownell (1958), in which it had upheld loss of citizenship under similar circumstances. Afroyim opened the way for a wider acceptance of
multiple citizenship in American law. Its impact was narrowed by Rogers v. Bellei (1971), which held that the Fourteenth Amendment did not apply in all cases, but the specific law in that case was repealed in 1978. The
Bancroft Treaties—a series of agreements between the United States and other nations which sought to limit dual citizenship—were abandoned after the
Carter administration concluded that they had been rendered unenforceable. As a consequence of revised government policies adopted in 1990, it is now "virtually impossible" to lose American citizenship involuntarily. (
Full article...)
2009 – The
Tamil Tigersattempted to crash two aircraft packed with
C-4 in suicide attacks on
Colombo, Sri Lanka, but the planes were shot down before they reached their targets.
Lunar distance is a measurement of the distance from the Earth to the Moon. This diagram shows the distance, averaging 384,400 km (238,900 mi), to scale, as well as the Earth and the Moon (scroll to see the entire image).
This Wikipedia is written in
English. Started in 2001 (2001), it currently contains
4,456,064 articles.
Many other Wikipedias are available; some of the largest are listed below.
Afroyim v. Rusk is a 1967
U.S. Supreme Court case which ruled that
American citizens may not be deprived of citizenship involuntarily. The U.S. government tried to revoke the citizenship of Beys Afroyim (pictured with his son), who had voted in an Israeli election after becoming a
naturalized American citizen, but the court decided that his right to retain his citizenship was guaranteed by the
Citizenship Clause of the
Fourteenth Amendment. It overruled Perez v. Brownell (1958), in which it had upheld loss of citizenship under similar circumstances. Afroyim opened the way for a wider acceptance of
multiple citizenship in American law. Its impact was narrowed by Rogers v. Bellei (1971), which held that the Fourteenth Amendment did not apply in all cases, but the specific law in that case was repealed in 1978. The
Bancroft Treaties—a series of agreements between the United States and other nations which sought to limit dual citizenship—were abandoned after the
Carter administration concluded that they had been rendered unenforceable. As a consequence of revised government policies adopted in 1990, it is now "virtually impossible" to lose American citizenship involuntarily. (
Full article...)
2009 – The
Tamil Tigersattempted to crash two aircraft packed with
C-4 in suicide attacks on
Colombo, Sri Lanka, but the planes were shot down before they reached their targets.
Lunar distance is a measurement of the distance from the Earth to the Moon. This diagram shows the distance, averaging 384,400 km (238,900 mi), to scale, as well as the Earth and the Moon (scroll to see the entire image).
This Wikipedia is written in
English. Started in 2001 (2001), it currently contains
4,456,064 articles.
Many other Wikipedias are available; some of the largest are listed below.