...to report recommendations for legislation to be laid before Congress," which report was forwarded to the Speaker of the House of Representatives by Secretary...with a letter of approval and commendation, dated the i8th December, 1906 : " Inasmuch as our Government declares that all persons born in the United...

...it not in fact redundant? Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment contains four important clauses: 1. All persons born ... in the United States . . . are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. 2. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the...

...protection for individual rights. The Fourteenth Amendment made citizenship color-blind, stipulating that "all persons born ... in the United States . . . are citizens of the United States and the State wherein they shall reside." lt also harred states from abridging "the privileges or immunities"...

...children, the Nisei, fell under the protective umbrella of the Foorteenth Amendment to the Constitution: "All persons born in the United States . . . are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside." Since in the US suffrage and other civil rights inhere in citizenship,...

...reassert the liberal definition of citizenship with the Fourteenth Amendment's encompassing provision that "all persons born ... in the United States . . . are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside" and by amending the naturalization law in 1870 to allow those of...

...tradition was spelled out clearly after the Civil War in the adoption of the 14th Amendment which states that "all persons born in the United States * * * are citizens of the United States". • APPENDIX 2— ADDENDUM TO PROFESSOR NEUMAN'S STATEMENT Professor Brier's testimony also argues...

...Abolished (1865) All slavery within the United States is abolished. Article XIV - Civil Rights (1868) All persons born in the United States are citizens of the United States. No state can limit the rights of American citizens. Representatives of each state in Congress will...

...Most of them understood that the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution stated very explicitly that "all persons born ... in the United States . . . are citizens of the United States" and as such had all the privileges and opportunities, and responsibilities and obligations, to utilize...

...ruling was overturned by the first sentence of the 14th Amendment, which was ratified in 1868. It states that "All persons born ... in the United States . . . [are] citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside." The question is simply this: Can a negro, whose ancestors were imported...

...repudiated not only the Black Codes, but also Justice Taney's view of race and citizenship, by declaring that "all persons born in the United States . . . are . . . citizens of the United States," and conferring upon the inhabitants of every race . . . the same right to make and enforce contracts, to...