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Under Protection Foreign: 1914, provided for the admission of foreign-built ships to American registry for foreign trade, and for other purposes. In section 5 of the act entitled "An act to provide for the opening, maintenance, protection and operation of the Panama Canal and the sanitation and government of the Canal Zone," the words "not more than five years old at the time they apply for registry," were repealed.
The state may treat citizens and noncitizen nationals differently in its domestic jurisdiction, just as it may discriminate between both of these groups and aliens—persons present on its territory and subject to its authority but owing it no allegiance and remaining nationals of a foreign state. In dealing with other governments, however, the state is obligated to afford protection to all of its nationals, citizens and noncitizens alike, and foreign governments customarily recognize its authority to do so.
Loss of Citizenship. Several actions have been legal cause for loss of U.S. citizenship for any American, native or naturalized. These include voluntary naturalization in a foreign state, taking an oath of allegiance to a foreign state, unauthorized service in foreign armed forces, employment by a foreign government under protection foreign certain circumstances, voting in a foreign election, formal renunciation of American nationality (with some limitations), desertion, treason, and draft avoidance. |
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