| Samuel Gompers - 1986 - 592 pages
...bona fide intention, and has been for the three years next preceding this application, to become a Citizen of the United States; and to renounce forever...Potentate, State or Sovereignty whatever; and particularly to the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, of whom I was before a subject. Sworn... | |
| Lawrence H. Fuchs - 1990 - 652 pages
...citizenship must "absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to everv foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty whatever,...the prince, potentate, state or sovereignty, whereof before he was a citizen or subject."42 The Jeffersonians won on the issue of the renunciation of titles,... | |
| Loretto Dennis Szucs - 1998 - 308 pages
...place of residence for the last two years past — that it is, bonafide, his intention to become a citizen of the United States, and to renounce forever all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty whatsoever, and, particularly, all allegiance and fidelity... | |
| 1902 - 708 pages
...clerk, ото years at least prior to his admission, that it is, bono, fídf, his intention to become a citizen of the United States, and to renounce forever all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince or State, and particularly to the one of which he may be at the time a citizen or subject.... | |
| Brian Mitchell - 2001 - 91 pages
...did declare on oath, before the County Court, on the 18th September 1838 his "intention to become a citizen of the United States, and to renounce, forever,...potentate, state or sovereignty, whatever, and particularly to Victoria Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland whereof you are, at present, a... | |
| Ronald H. Bayor - 2004 - 1032 pages
...States, three years at least before his admission, that it was, bon fide, his intention to become a citizen of the United States, and to renounce forever all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty whereof such alien may at that time be a citizen or... | |
| Peter J. Spiro - 2008 - 205 pages
...applicant was required to "absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to every foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty whatever,...the prince, potentate, state or sovereignty, whereof he was before a citizen or subject."3 This renunciation oath was taken seriously. "The moment a foreigner... | |
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