Speaker. as late as 1960. and not longer than 1957 the House and the Senate wrote into the statutory law of the land that jurors serving in cases growing out of civil rights legislation of that year must have the ability to read. write. and understand the English language. Furthermore. Mr. Speaker. our immigration and naturalization laws require that no citizen of another land may be naturalized in America unless and until he or she can read and write the English language. Yet. with one bold stroke by legislative enactment. we strike down the law of New York which was enacted pursuant to the Constitution of the United States. Mr.
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