Charles Evans Whittaker

“ Though I agree with the major premise of the majority's opinion-that Congress may expatriate a citizen for an act which it may reasonably find to be fraught with danger of embroiling our Government in an international dispute or of embarrassing it in the conduct of foreign affairs-I cannot agree with the result reached, for it seems plain to me that § 401 (e) is too broadly written to be sustained upon that ground. ”

“ That section, so far as here pertinent, expatriates an American citizen simply for 'voting in a political election in a foreign state.' Voting in a political election in a particular foreign state may be open to aliens under the law of that state, as it was in presidential elections in the United States until 1928 as the dissenting opinion of The Chief Justice observes. ”