Prepping to teach Yick Wo today and came across this passage from James Bradley Thayer's "Cases on the Constitution" in 1894 (four years before Wong Kim Ark).
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What's notable isn't the case per se, folks know about it. What's important here is that it was widely circulated by a leading late 19th Century constitutional voice-- and the constitutional instruction here is laid out in plain terms.
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What's notable isn't the case per se, folks know about it. What's important here is that it was widely circulated by a leading late 19th Century constitutional voice-- and the constitutional instruction here is laid out in plain terms.