Mr. President. the measure which a group of my colleagues and I have just introduced is a bill to give effect to the constitutional guaranties. under the 14th amendment. of equal protection of the laws. We should never forget that the 14th amendment provided that all persons who were either born or naturalized in the United States were citizens both of the United States and of the State in which they live. No differentiation was provided between these citizensall were presumed to be of equal value and to possess equal rights. No categories of first- and secondclass citizenship were set up.
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