Free governments. free constitutions. can only flourish and exist where the people are intelligent. ecucated. and cultivated. So. in harmony with our institutions and our form of government. it is just and proper to make this educational test. We have a rightit is not only a right inherent in every government. but we have peculiarly that right. being the freest Government on the face of the earthto say to immigrants when we admit them to fellowship among our own people that they shall approximate the standard of the intelligence and culture of our own people. But this amendment destroys the singleness and unity of the pending measure. a chief factor of its strength. The amendment seeks to enforce another test. ostensibly on the plea of encouraging or building up American commerce.
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