Speech #740004709

President. the joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution which I have just introduced provides simply thatAliens shall be excluded from the count of the whole number of persons in each State in apportioning representatives among the several States according to their respective numbers. Under the present wording of the Constitution. those States with large numbers of unnaturalized aliensthere are some 6.000.000 of these in the United Statesare given credit for these unnaturalized aliens in the apportionment of congressional Representatives and Presidential electors. Those States which are most largely composed of nativeborn and naturalized citizens are deprived of representation they should be entitledto. The justice of this amendment I am proposing is attested by the fact that in those States which are given extra congressional and electoral representation because of their large number of unnaturalized aliensin those States these unnaturalized aliens are excluded from the count in apportioning representation in their State legislatures and assemblies. In the latest apportionment. the agricultural and interior industrial States in which the population is predominantly American. lost half a dozen Congressmen to those States in which there are several million of unnaturalized aliens.