Speech #560145083

That is what it says. That is the treaty. In the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution that subject was taken up. and the act of 1866 was not broad enough to meet the demands that were then supposed to be in existence for the protection of certain people in the United States. and a constitutional amendment was submitted to the country and approved by the Statesthe fourteenth amendmentwhich contains this language changing the statute of 1866: All persons born or naturalized in the United States. and subject to the jurisdiction thereof. are citizensof the United States and of the State wherein they reside. Congress did not consider itself at liberty. in the enactment of the law of 1866. to declare that any part of the people of the United States were citizens of the State in which they resided. and the law on this subject was so amended as to include the citizens of the States and to give them citizenship in the States. and it was broadened so that "all persons born or naturalized in the United States. and subject to the jurisdiction thereof. are citizens of the United States." The Filipinos are persons. and many of them have been born since the treaty of Paris. and they have been naturalized. that is to say. they have been adopted. and they have the rights of citizenship. even if all of them have not passed through the forms of law necessary to confer that citizenship as a declaration of law. In what respect. then. have I rights as a citizen superior to the Filipinos? His allegiancetothis country was one of birth.