what effect did the cable act have on citizenship of women
Congressional Record 92, 67th Cong., 2d sess., 9039-67. Sapiro, Women, Citizenship and Nationality, esp. 13-16, contends that passage of the Cable Act depended on congressmen's wish to institute more rigorous naturalization procedures for alien wives of American citizens, in order to restrict the immigrant vote.ophonisba P. Breckinridge called the policy of the male head's citizenship determining that of his wife and children the family unity doctrine, in Marriage nnrl the Civic Rights of Women (Chicago, 1931), 50-55; so did Waltz, Nationali@ of Married Women, 44-48, and both considered it patriarchal.