| United
States naturalization Act of 1790 |
Signed by president George Washington,this
law let only whites become citizens. Proving beyond a shadow of a
doubt that the founding Fathers
created America for white people only!
Passed by the United States Congress,
“An act to establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization”
(March 26, 1790).
TEXT SOURCE:
1 Stat. 103-104. edited version: De Pauw, Linda Grant, et al., eds.
Documentary History of the First Federal Congress of the United
States of America, March 4, 1789 – March 3, 1791. 14 vols.
to date. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1972-1995. 6:1516-1522.
Be it enacted
by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States
of America, in Congress assembled, That any Alien being a free
white person, who shall have resided within the limits and under
the jurisdiction of the United States for the term of two years,
may be admitted to become a citizen thereof on application to any
common law Court of record in any one of the States wherein he shall
have resided for the term of one year at least, and making proof
to the satisfaction of such Court that he is a person of good character,
and taking the oath or affirmation prescribed by law to support
the Constitution of the United States, which Oath or Affirmation
such Court shall administer, and the Clerk of such Court shall record
such Application, and the proceedings thereon; and thereupon such
person shall be considered as a Citizen of the United States. And
the children of such person so naturalized, dwelling within the
United States, being under the age of twenty one years at the time
of such naturalization, shall also be considered as citizens of
the United States. And the children of citizens of the United States
that may be born beyond Sea, or out of the limits of the United
States, shall be considered as natural born Citizens: Provided,
that the right of citizenship shall not descend to persons whose
fathers have never been resident in the United States: Provided
also, that no person heretofore proscribed by any States, shall
be admitted a citizen as aforesaid, except by an Act of the Legislature
of the State in which such person was proscribed.
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