Rogers v. Bellei

Rogers v. Bellei
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued January 15, 1970 Reargued November 12, 1970 Decided April 5, 1971
Full case name	William P. Rogers, Secretary of State, Appellant, v. Aldo Mario Bellei
Citations	401 U.S. 815 (more) 91 S. Ct. 1060; 28 L. Ed. 2d 499
Case history
Prior	Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Columbia
Holding
Congress has the power to impose the condition subsequent of residence in this country on appellee, who does not come within the Fourteenth Amendment's definition of citizens as those "born or naturalized in the United States," and its imposition is not unreasonable, arbitrary, or unlawful.
Court membership
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Associate Justices Hugo Black · William O. Douglas John M. Harlan II · William J. Brennan Jr. Potter Stewart · Byron White Thurgood Marshall · Harry Blackmun
Case opinions
Majority	Blackmun, joined by Burger, Harlan, Stewart, White
Dissent	Black, joined by Douglas, Marshall
Dissent	Brennan, joined by Douglas

Rogers v. Bellei, 401 U.S. 815 (1971), was a decision by the United States Supreme Court, which held that an individual who received an automatic congressional grant of citizenship at birth, but who was born outside the United States, may lose his citizenship for failure to fulfill any reasonable residence requirements which the United States Congress may impose as a condition subsequent to that citizenship.^[1]