 all persons born in the United States are citizens of the United States...  Hearings - Page 5by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs - 1928Full view - About this book
 | 1994 - 394 pages
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 | Charles J. McClain - 1994 - 528 pages
...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,... | |
 | Lucy E. Salyer - 1995 - 364 pages
...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... | |
 | 1997 - 102 pages
...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... | |
 | Malcolm Muir - 2001 - 318 pages
...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... | |
 | Joy Hakim - 2003 - 356 pages
...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... | |
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