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Notorial dissent wrote:
Expatriation:(Merriam Webster online dictionary)
:to leave one's native country to live elsewhere; also : to renounce allegiance to one's native country:
In plain English to pick one's self up and move to a different country, generally with the intent to become a citizen of the new country, with the implication of giving up one's natural citizenship.
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That is a definition for expatriation, but not the only one. How about I step it up a notch for you, Notorial?
EXPATRIATION: The voluntary act of abandoning one's country, and becoming the citizen of another.
The voluntary renunciation or abandonment of nationality and allegiance.
ABANDON. To desert, surrender, forsake, or cede.
To relinquish or give up with intent of never again resuming one's right or interest.
-Source: Black's Law Dictionary, 4th Ed.
Allow me to repost these again since you may have skimmed over them instead of reading them. I'll bold them this time for your easier reading:
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"Both before and after the Fourteenth Amendment to the
federal Constitution, it has not been necessary for a
person to be a citizen of the United States in order to
be a citizen of his state."
[Crosse v. Board of Supervisors of Elections]
[221 A.2d 431 (1966)]
"But a person may be a citizen of a particular state
and not a citizen of the United States. To hold
otherwise would be to deny to the state the highest
exercise of its sovereignty -- the right to declare who
are its citizens."
[State v. Fowler, 41 La. Ann. 380, 6 S. 602 (1889)]
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