Collet v. Collet’s Empirical Analysis

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2 district · 2 state decisions

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1. ““The question now agitated depends upon another question: Whether the state of Pennsylvania, since the 26th of March, 1790 (when the act of Congress was passed), has a right to naturalize an alien? And this must receive its answer from the solution of a third question; whether, according to the Constitution of the United States, the authority to naturalize is exclusive or concurrent? We are of opinion, then, that the states, individually, still enjoy a concurrent authority upon this subject, but that their individual authority cannot be exercised so as to contravene the rule established by the authority of the Union.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. United States v. Viaropulos

2. ““The true reason for investing Congress with the power of naturalization lias been assigned at the bar. It was to guard against too narrow, instead of too liberal, a mode of conferring the rights of citizenship. Thus, the individual states cannot exclude those citizens who have been adopted by the United ¡States, but they can adopt citizens upon easier terms than those which Congress may deem it expedient to impose.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. United States v. Viaropulos