Before the Constitution. so that before the Constitution was adopted. the Congress realizing that persons of foreign birth had. contributed in a most substantial way. Alexander Hamilton among them. to the attainment of independence. they very promptly passed an act by which those foreignborn residents of the country might become citizens of the United States. and under the mandate of the Constitution. the Congress having power to pass a uniform law on the subject of naturalization. the Congress promptly went to work and passed a liberal act under which aliens who had resided in this country but two years might become citizens of the United States.
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