I am in the somewhat unusual position of having a potential right to a vote in the U.S. Presidential election which I have not taken up. In 1934, as a move towards gender equality, President Roosevelt gave American women the right to retain their citizenship if they married a foreigner. My mother had married an Englishman in 1920, had forfeited her citizenship and was in due course able to regain it.
May 30th, 2008 | William Rees-Mogg | 5 comments | Continued
