Maximizing Voter Choice: Opening the Presidency to Naturalized Americans : Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, Second Session, October 5, 2004U.S. Government Printing Office, 2004 - 111 pàgines |
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Pàgina 98 - State shall have free ingress and regress to and from any other State, and shall enjoy therein all the privileges of trade and commerce...
Pàgina 18 - Washington that the bosom of America is open to receive not only the opulent and respectable stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all nations and religions; whom we shall welcome to a participation of all our rights and privileges if by decency and propriety of conduct they appear to merit the enjoyment ". ' For approximately two decades, US immigration policy had labored under the archaic " National Origins
Pàgina 97 - He reminded the Convention of the language held by our patriots during the Revolution, and the principles laid down in all our American Constitutions. Many foreigners may have fixed their fortunes among us under the faith of these invitations.
Pàgina 106 - All such would feel the mortification of being marked with suspicious incapacitations, though they should not covet the public honors. He was not apprehensive that any dangerous number of strangers would be appointed by the State Legislatures, if they were left at liberty to do so ; nor that foreign powers would make use of strangers, as instruments for their purposes. Their bribes would be expended on men whose circumstances would rather stifle than excite jealousy and watchfulness in the public.
Pàgina 66 - We have done our best. We have scratched our heads to find out how we could eliminate the last one of them. We stuffed ballot boxes. We shot them. We are not ashamed of it.
Pàgina 96 - ... to those who have foreign attachments. He quoted the jealousy of the Athenians on this subject who made it death for any stranger to intrude his voice into their Legislative proceedings.
Pàgina 106 - For the same reason that they would be attached to their native country, our own people would prefer natives of this country to them. Experience proved this to be the case. Instances were rare of a foreigner being elected by the people within any short space after his coming among us. If bribery was to be practised by foreign powers, it would not be attempted among the electors, but among the elected, and among natives having full confidence of the people, not among strangers, who would be regarded...
Pàgina 2 - The first section of the second article of the constitution uses the language, "a natural-born citizen." It thus assumes that citizenship may be acquired by birth. Undoubtedly, this language of the constitution was used in reference to that principle of public law, well understood in this country at the time of the adoption of the constitution, which referred citizenship to the place of birth. At the Declaration of Independence, and ever since, the received general...
Pàgina 22 - In view of our decision that the Constitution prohibits the states from maintaining racially segregated public schools, it would be unthinkable that the same Constitution would impose a lesser duty on the Federal Government.
Pàgina 99 - That every male inhabitant, of full age, who shall have personally resided within one of the counties of this State for six months immediately preceding the day of election, shall at such election, be entitled to vote for Representatives of the said county in Assembly; if, during the time aforesaid, he...