Citizenship of Women in the United States
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A resolution of the present citizenship status of women as nationals of the United States presents certain difficulties, which arise mainly from three differing phases of our national policy: (1) the operation of the common law as decisive of this question until March 2, 1907; (2) the enactment of March 2, 1907, in part declaratory, and in part in derogation, of the pre-existing law as it applied to the citizenship of women; (3) the Cable Act of September 22, 1922, inaugurating a distinct policy unknown to the common law, and the amendments made thereto by Acts of Congress of July 3, 1930, and March 3, 1931.