[55] See chapter on citizenship.
[56] Thomas Jefferson.
[57] See chapters on “Constitution” and “Cantons.”
[58] This includes, also, birth abroad of children of American citizens temporarily residing or travelling in other countries (Rev. Stat. U. S., Sec. 1993).
[59] “Citizenship of the United States,” Richman,—“Political Science Quarterly,” March, 1890.
[60] “A citizen of a State is now only a citizen of the United States residing in that State; citizenship of the United States is the primary citizenship; State citizenship is secondary and derivative, depending upon citizenship of the United States.” (Slaughter-House cases, 16 Wallace.)
[61] The difficulty of obtaining citizenship, at one time, in the pastoral Cantons, is shown by the fact that no one had done so in lower Unterwald from 1664 to 1815.
[62] The successful issue of this suit was due to the vigorous and determined efforts of the United States consul at Zurich, George L. Catlin.
[63] These peasant proprietors do not live scattered amid the fields which they till, but are disposed to gather in the centre of the Commune, forming numerous small hamlets.
[64] Called in the Roman law legitima portio, legitimate portion; but the German law has a better designation for it,—Pflichttheil, duty part.