are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.” The Naturalization Act of 1790 applied citizenship only to “free white persons,” and the Supreme Court’s reviled ...

875, section 3) disqualify from naturalization as citizens those Hindus, now barred by that act, who had lawfully entered the United States prior ... of the statute in 1790. But in this country ...

The Naturalization Act ... and the Alien Enemies Act, which allowed the deportation of any alien who hailed from a country at war with the United States. The Sedition Act authorized the ...