It decides that Chinese born in the United States of Chinese parents. subject to our jurisdictionand that means everybody except diplomatsare American citizens. clothed with all the immunities. privileges. and duties of American citizens. I do not believe a syllable of it. They decided it under the first clause of the fourteenth amendment. which says theft anybody born in the United States or naturalized here is a citizen. That is the strict letter of that amendment. but in construing a law it has always been held that you must consider the history of the times in which the law is written. and it was said in the celebrated Slaughterhouse Cases by Mr. Justice Miller that the thirteenth. fourteenth. and fifteenth amendments were passed for the sole benefit of the negroes.
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