The Disallegiant Heart: Constitutional Citizenship and the History of Marital Denaturalization
The Disallegiant Heart: Constitutional Citizenship and the History of Marital Denaturalization
Helen Irving, Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Sydney Abstract: In this paper, I invite a reconceptualization of constitutional (as distinct from political) citizenship, by examining the legal practice, virtually universal between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, of the denaturalization of citizen women who married alien men. This practice, which emerged as a by-product of ... Read More