Wong Kim Ark (169 U.S.. 649). There it was decided that a child born in the United States of Chinese parents who. at the time of his birth. are subjects of the Emperor of China. but have a domicile in the United States.and are not employed in any diplomatic or official capacity under the Emperor of China. becomes at the time of his birth a citizen of the United States by virtue of the first clause of the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution: All persons born or nafuralized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. It will be noted that the power granted to Congress Dy the Constitution is "-to establish an uniform rule of naturalization." It is not easy to discover. even if we bring the Filipino within our fold. how we can have "an uniform rule of naturalization" without including the offspring of those who inhabit the islands from Mindanao to Luzon. The Senator from Louisiana has contributed an able argument regarding the citizen status of the Filipinos in case of annexation. As was well said by exSenator Edmunds: A republic can have no subjects.
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