We Must Change Our Constitution

October 16, 2023

by Karl Denninger Market-Ticker.org

The Founders were very concerned about divided loyalty — and with good reason.

They had just thrown the British out of what was a nascent United States. It was not long before Britain tried something crazy again, of course: In the War of 1812 they burned the US Capitol!

It wasn’t that long ago the United States did not formally recognize dual nationality. Prior to 1967 it was not permitted, notwithstanding a 1952 Supreme Court case on the matter. I had an uncle (since deceased) who held dual British and US citizenship and he had to be very careful when traveling internationally, lest he wind up having one of them revoked on him and having trouble getting back into the US. British citizenship allowed him to work and in fact run a hotel in Bermuda, which he did (as that’s a British protectorate), something a US citizen could not do. He was a veteran as well having been in WWII so you’d think nobody would question anything of the sort.

You’d be wrong.