4 Attachment(s)
Citizenship, is this the reason they had to pass the 14th Amendment?
I came across Attorney General Bates opinion on citizenship you all may find very enlightening:
https://books.google.com/books?id=1v...enship&f=false
https://books.google.com/books?id=Ku...%20506&f=false
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/fed.../370/case.html
https://books.google.com/books?id=RY...0color&f=false
Ok, as linked above, I came across this opinion from Attorney General Bates where he is asked about a "colored" man in command of a ship if he was a citizen of the United States, previously Attorney General Wirt had the opinion that colored people could not be citizens of the United States.
These are from Bates.
Attachment 4451
Attachment 4452
This is from Wirt
Attachment 4453
Attachment 4454
The case Wirt cites is this:
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/fed.../370/case.html