US friends, did you know about the 1907 Expatriation Act?
TIL that, in 1907, Congress enacted a statute that stripped women of citizenship if they married a non-citizen. SCOTUS upheld this law in 1915. It was fully reversed in 1940, but women who'd lost citizenship weren't eligible for redress if they'd ever resided abroad while married.
I know I have to stop reading things about our shaving cream sandwich of a world for a while, but for fudge's sake.
The cruelty we've *always* been fighting.
I feel like we keep mixing up "simpler time" with "simple-headed" time - which is also, conveniently, most every time!
@MLClark and that is the repeated error some people make and others exploit. It certainly plays to rigidity in thinking, the All or Nothing approach to problem solving of the simple minded. And it’s not sufficient that they “go back” for themselves they have to outlaw or restrict that to which they succumb. Like that line about Calvinists being upset that someone somewhere is having fun.