Volume 1. Publisher's Note -- Editor's Introduction -- Contributors -- The Development of American Citizenship. Naturalization Act of 1790 -- The Bill of Rights -- Of Man, as a Member of Society, Lectures on Law -- Alien and Sedition Acts -- Louisiana Purchase Treaty -- Speech in Congress on the War of 1812 -- Democracy in America -- On Texan Independence -- Petition to the US Congress Regarding the Great Influx of Roman Catholics -- Declaration of Principles of the Native American Convention -- Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo -- Progress and Extent of Immigration Prior to 1819 -- Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution -- American Indians and Citizenship. Cherokee Nation v. Georgia -- Address of the Lake Mohonk Conference on Indian Affairs -- Indian Citizenship Act -- Indian Civil Rights Act -- African Americans and Citizenship. Dred Scott v. Sandford -- Civil Rights Act of 1866 -- Civil Rights Act of 1875 -- United States v. Cruikshank -- Plessy v. Ferguson -- Guinn v. United States -- Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954) plus Enforcement Decree for Same (1955) -- Civil Rights Act of 1964 -- LBJ: "The American Promise" -- Speech before Congress on Voting Rights -- Latinos/as and Citizenship. A Foreigner in My Own Land -- "On Seizing Land from Native Californians" -- Walt Whitman: The Spanish Element in Our Nationality -- The Repatriation of Mexicans and Mexican Americans -- Bracero Program Agreement -- Hernandez v. Texas -- Plyler v. Doe -- Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 -- Letter of Protest Regarding the Treatment of Undocumented Immigrants -- DREAM Act of 2010 : Bill Summary -- Executive Actions on Immigration, 2014 -- Volume 2. Asians, Asian Americans, and Citizenship. A Chinese American Protest -- People v. Hall -- Chinese Exclusion Act -- Alien Contract Labor Act -- United States v. Wong Kim Ark -- Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to V.H. Metcalf -- Ozawa v. United States -- United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind -- Excerpts of the Munson Report -- Executive Order 9066 : Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians -- Korematsu v. United States -- Women and Citizenship. Seneca Falls Convention Declaration of Sentiments -- Lecture on Constitutional Equality -- Susan B. Anthony: "Is It a Crime for a Citizen of the United States to Vote?" -- "Women's Suffrage in a Democratic Republic" -- Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution -- Twentieth-Century Formulations. Woodrow Wilson's Third Annual Message to Congress -- Immigration Act of 1917 -- The National Origins Act (Immigration Act of 1924) -- Smith Act (also known as the Alien Registration Act of 1940) -- Presidential Proclamation 2526: Alien Enemies-Germans -- Presidential Proclamation 2527: Alien Enemies-Italians -- Report of the President's Committee on Civil Rights -- McCarran-Walter Act -- Presidential Veto of the McCarran-Walter Bill -- Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 -- Twenty-Sixth Amendment -- Controversies in Recent Years. Chamber of Commerce v. Whiting -- Real ID Act -- Civics Test for Naturalization -- Statements by Barack Obama and a Spokesperson for Donald Trump Regarding the "Birtherism" Controversy -- Arizona v. the United States -- Executive Order regarding U.S.-Mexico Border Child Separations -- Department of Commerce v. New York. -- Biden Memorandum on DACA -- Biden Proclamation regarding Trump's Border Wall -- Biden Executive Orders on Immigration Enforcement -- Special Topics in Citizenship. U.S. Code : Revocation of Naturalization -- Trop v. Dulles -- Afroyim v. Rusk -- Foley v. Connelie -- U.S. Code : Admission of Nonimmigrants -- Amendment Regarding Naturalization for Permanent Residents Serving in the Military -- Honorary Citizenship -- Advice About Possible Loss of U.S. Citizenship -- Appendixes. Chronological List -- Web Resources -- Bibliography.
Summary:
This two-volume set examines how today's U.S. citizen was first imagined, how citizenship was established and codified, and how it has been refined over time. Essays also consider barriers to full citizenship, including voting rights, civil rights, prisoner's rights, immigration quotas, and the process of becoming a naturalized citizen. Slavery is also discussed, as slaves were not considered citizens at all and in fact only counted as three-fifths of man. Constitutional amendments, civil rights legislation, and a parade of court cases both advanced and prevented individuals from achieving citizenship. White women were considered citizens from the nation's earliest days, but they could not vote, hold office, or serve on juries until the determined efforts of suffragists began the process of making all women full citizens with all of its attendant rights, including the right to vote. Native Americans were not officially U.S. citizens until the passage of the Indian Citizenship Act in 1924. Readers will gain an in-depth understanding of American citizenship. The documents analyzed in this set include: The Declaration of Independence; The United States Constitution; The Bill of Rights; The Compromise of 1850; The Fifteenth, Nineteenth, Twenty-fourth, and Twenty-fifth Amendments; David Walker's Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World; Susan B. Anthony's "Is It a Crime for a Citizen of the United States to Vote?"; Voting Rights Act of 1975. Each in-depth chapter provides a thorough commentary and analysis of each primary source document, often reprinted in its entirety. Commentary includes a Summary, Overview, Defining Moment, Author Biography, Detailed Document Analysis, and discussion of Essential Themes. Many of these chapters are bolstered through the inclusion of Supplemental Historical Documents, which broaden the scope of the book and offer additional context. - Publisher.
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