Cable Act

Cable Act

Other short titles	Married Women's Citizenship Act Married Women's Independent Nationality Act Women's Citizenship Act
Long title	An Act relative to the naturalization and citizenship of married women.
Nicknames	Cable Act of 1922
Enacted by	the 67th United States Congress
Effective	September 22, 1922 (at very bottom of page and on following pages)
Citations
Public law	67-346
Statutes at Large	42 Stat. 1021b
Codification
Acts repealed	Expatriation Act of 1907
Titles amended	8 U.S.C.: Aliens and Nationality
U.S.C. sections created	8 U.S.C. ch. 9 §§ 367–370
Legislative history
Introduced in the House as H.R. 12022 by John L. Cable (R–OH) on June 16, 1922 Committee consideration by House Immigration and Naturalization, Senate Immigration Passed the House on June 20, 1922 (254-3) Passed the Senate on September 9, 1922 (Passed) Signed into law by President Warren G. Harding on September 22, 1922

The Cable Act of 1922 (ch. 411, 42 Stat. 1021, "Married Women's Independent Nationality Act") was a United States federal law that partially reversed the Expatriation Act of 1907. (It is also known as the Married Women's Citizenship Act or the Women's Citizenship Act). In theory the law was designed to grant women their own national identity; however, in practice, as it still retained vestiges of coverture, tying a woman's legal identity to her husband's, it had to be amended multiple times before it granted women citizenship in their own right.