Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 January 2021
Relationship of international law and municipal law — Recognition of foreign States — Recognition of sovereignty over territory — Status of Jerusalem — Petitioner United States citizen born in Jerusalem — Petitioner requesting place of birth in passport to be designated as Israel in accordance with Section 214(d) of Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 2003 — United States Executive policy not to take position on political status of Jerusalem — Passport issued listing Jerusalem as birth place — Petitioner filing claim against State Department invoking Act — Separation of powers — Foreign affairs — Constitution delegating foreign affairs powers to Executive and Legislative — Constitutionality of Section 214(d) of Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 2003
Territory — Sovereignty — Recognition of sovereignty over disputed territory — Jerusalem — Whether part of Israel — United States legislation requiring that passport of United States citizen born in Jerusalem show place of birth as Israel — United States Executive policy of taking no position regarding sovereignty over Jerusalem
War and armed conflict — Occupation — Jerusalem — Whether Jerusalem part of Israel — The law of the United States