Rogers v. Bellei, 401 U.S. 815 (1971)

LINK TO CASE: https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=3117430109405641226

SIGNIFICANCE:

1. Established 8 U.S.C. 1401 TERRITORIAL/POLITICAL citizenship as a revocable privilege rather than a private right or private property.
2. Compare with Afroyim v. Rusk, 387 U.S. 253 (1967), in which CONSTITUTIONAL/POLITITICAL “citizen of the United States**” statute was a right rather than a privilege.