...citizenship must "absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to everv foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty whatever,...the prince, potentate, state or sovereignty, whereof before he was a citizen or subject."42 The Jeffersonians won on the issue of the renunciation of titles,...

...citizen had to declare under oath "that he will support the Constitution of the United States of America, and that he doth absolutely and entirely renounce...Potentate State or Sovereignty whatever, and particularly to"— there follows a dotted line on which we see written "Wilhelmina Queen of the Netherlands." That...

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...subscribed the oath required by [the] laws to support the Constitution of the United States and to renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to...Prince, Potentate, State, or Sovereignty whatever, and more particularly all allegiance which he may in anywise owe to the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland...

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...that it is bona fide his intention to become a citizen of the United States, and to renounce forever all allegiance and fidelity to every foreign prince,...potentate, state or sovereignty, whatever, and particularly to the King of Bavaria, of whom he was heretofore a subject. And the said Peter Henry Lemke makes report...

...the oath prescribed by law to support the Constitution of the United States, and did in open Court absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance...every foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty, and particularly to the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, of whom he was then...

...necessary in order to become an American citizen, to take an oath solemnly renouncing and abjuring "all allegiance and fidelity to every foreign prince,...potentate, state or sovereignty whatever and particularly to the prince etc. etc.," of which the person intending to become a citizen is a subject. I had the...

...Sworn to by said witnesses. Before me, Clerk. (5.) OATH OF PETITIONER. I, do solemnly swear, that I do absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance...every foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty whatsoever, particularly to (name of the sovereign and state to which he has borne allegiance), whose...

...that British immigrants at their naturalization were required to swear an oath in which they "forever renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to every foreign prince, potentate, state, and sovereignty, whatsoever and particularly to the Queen of the United Kingdom."49 But the main thrust...