01:920:108 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Fourteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution, Civil Rights Act Of 1866, United States V. Wong Kim Ark
18 Dec 2016
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Defining who belongs through immigration and citizenship laws. American citizenship laws - background: naturalization act of 1790. Naturalization rights limited to free, white persons. Racial preference built into laws of citizenship. Rescinded implications of dred scott case (which dictated that blacks are not and could not become citizens) : all persons born in the u. s. and not subject to a foreign power can become citizens. Reversed the importance of state"s rights to the definition of citizenship. Extends right of citizenship by birth to all. State could not violate a citizen"s rights, as granted by the federal government: naturalization act of 1870. Congress amends law to extend naturalization privilege to aliens of. African nativity and to persons of african descent : immigration act of 1875. Codification (restatement) of the naturalization laws; left out the original. 1790 federal statute provision that naturalization rights were limited to free, white persons.
