Dual Citizenship Folly

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The United States should end its folly of tolerating dual citizenship for persons who vote, serve in office, or otherwise demonstrate allegiance to a foreign government.

As the New Testament sermonizes, "No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other." The United States Constitution thus prohibits any federal officeholder, without the consent of Congress, from accepting "any present, emolument, office, or title of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state.

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Dual Citizenship Folly

Most would be stunned to learn, however, that under U.S. law (8 U.S. Code, section 1481), a person may retain citizenship despite enrolling in the armed forces of a foreign nation at war with the United States, serving as president of a fo...

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