Session #71 · 1929–31

Speech #710019977

Would It not be a strange contradiction In the fathers who wrote the Constitution to have prescribed that an alien born could never be President of the United States. that he could not be a Representative in either branch of the Congress until he had lived here a certain number of years. that he could not vote until he was naturalized. and yet since we elect our President through an Electoral College. Indirectly denying him the right to vote. then giving him the right to determine who shall be President of the United States? If they intended that aliens should be counted for the purpose of apportionment. why would they wish Congress to exclude them from actual participation in the Government?
Keywords matched
naturalized

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Neutral
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
95%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
THADDEUS CARAWAY
Party
D
Chamber
S
State
AR
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
710019977
Paragraph
#0
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