Now. gentlemen. I desire to look briefly (for I must be brief) at what I concede to be the law. I state to you that in the provision of our Constitution in reference to naturalization are the strangest words to be found in any ordinance or law. The provision is that Congress shall have powerTo establishThat is the first time such language was used- To establish an uniform rule of naturalizationThe only time that the word "rule" is expressed and emphasized in that instrument. In the same clause there follows this language: And uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States. Why in all other ordinances but this are "laws" spoken of. and why did the framers of the Constitution in writing this ordinance use the phrase "establish an uniform rule of naturalization ?" Ah. those compatriots knew what they meant. and they verified their meaning in the cases submitted to them. Let me emphasize this by reference to a historical case. Mr.
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