Mr. Speaker and gentlemen of the House. we have heard so much today as to what the founders of our Government thought and did about immigration. I thought it would be not only opportune but interesting to read a set of resolutions passed by the Continental Congress on August 14. 1776. These resolutions were prepared by Thomas Jefferson. Richard Stockton. of New Jersey. James Wilson of Pennsylvania. appointed later by Washington to the Supreme Court of the United States. and Benjamin Franklin. added later to the committee. The resolutions are as follows: Whereas it has been the wise policy of these States to extend the protection of their laws to all those who should settle among them. of whatever nation or religion they might be. and to admit them to a participation of the benefits of civil and religious freedom . and the benevolence of this practice. as well as its salutary effects. have rendered it worthy of being continued in future times . and Whereas His Britannic Majesty.
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