• in the court case Trop v. Dulles, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that it was unconstitutional for the government to cancel the citizenship of a U.S. citizen as a punishment?
• the government of Malaysia has been alleged to be behind Project IC, which involves the systematic granting of citizenship to hundreds of thousands of immigrants to alter the demographic and voting pattern in their favour?
• concerned citizens of Johnston, Rhode Island, were able to prevent the construction of a waterpark at Snake Den State Park in 2005?
• between 1955 and 1998, under Article 19 of the Greek Citizenship Code which entitled the Greek government to strip non-ethnic Greeks who left the country of their citizenship, 46,638 members of the officially recognized Muslim minority of Greece lost their citizenship?
• Clinton v. Jones established that a President of the United States was not exempt from being sued by private citizens in civil lawsuits?
• Polish general Jan Rządkowski was dismissed from his post as the commander of the armed forces of Central Lithuania when it was discovered that he did not have citizenship in that state?
• Swiss voters rejected a proposal to hold popular votes on applications for citizenship in the June 2008 Swiss referendum?

Facts on topics related to Citizenship

Law

• legal experts consider the YouTube divorce video posted by British playwright Tricia Walsh-Smith be the first of its kind?
• Bredo Henrik von Munthe af Morgenstierne, professor of law and rector of the University of Oslo, was a nephew of Norwegian Prime Minister Frederik Stang?
• Leonard McEwan, in an unusual move, stepped down from the Wyoming Supreme Court in 1974 to become instead a district court judge in Sheridan, where he had earlier practiced law?
• collecting Toyon branches for Christmas became so popular in Los Angeles, California in the 1920s, that the state passed a law forbidding collecting?
• the Satversme is intended to hold together all other laws in Latvia?

British citizenship

• Sir Edgar Speyer funded the Promenade Concerts from 1902 to 1914, but he was accused of trading with the enemy during the First World War and lost his British citizenship?