04526nam 2200769 a 450 991095954790332120251116144140.0978661275239197812827523991282752391978140082195214008219599781400812790140081279810.1515/9781400821952(CKB)111056486503590(EBL)617291(OCoLC)705527012(SSID)ssj0000251960(PQKBManifestationID)11239759(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000251960(PQKBWorkID)10175469(PQKB)10019186(OCoLC)51533670(MdBmJHUP)muse36003(DE-B1597)446152(OCoLC)979577720(DE-B1597)9781400821952(Au-PeEL)EBL617291(CaPaEBR)ebr10035791(CaONFJC)MIL275239(MiAaPQ)EBC617291(Perlego)733963(iGPub)PUPB0001655(EXLCZ)9911105648650359019951031d1996 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierStrangers to the Constitution immigrants, borders, and fundamental law /Gerald L. NeumanCourse BookPrinceton, N.J. Princeton University Pressc19961 online resource (296 pages)Description based upon print version of record.9780691043609 0691043604 Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-275) and index.Front matter --Contents --PREFACE --ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --Chapter One. WHOSE CONSTITUTION? --PART ONE: THE PAST --Chapter Two. THE OPEN BORDERS MYTH AND THE LOST CENTURY OF AMERICAN IMMIGRATION LAW --Chapter Three. CONSTITUTIONAL LIMITS ON IMMIGRATION REGULATION IN THE FIRST CENTURY: FEDERALISM OBJECTIONS --Chapter Four. THE RIGHTS OF ALIEN FRIENDS WITHIN THE UNITED STATES --Chapter Five. THE GEOGRAPHICAL SCOPE OF THE CONSTITUTION --PART TWO: THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE --Chapter Six. RIGHTS BEYOND OUR BORDERS --Chapter Seven. CROSSING THE BORDER --Chapter Eight. LIMITS OF THE POLITY: POLITICAL RIGHTS OF IMMIGRANTS IN THE UNITED STATES --Chapter Nine. LIMITS OF THE NATION: BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP AND UNDOCUMENTED CHILDREN --Chapter Ten. CONCLUSION --NOTES --INDEXGerald Neuman discusses in historical and contemporary terms the repeated efforts of U.S. insiders to claim the Constitution as their exclusive property and to deny constitutional rights to aliens and immigrants--and even citizens if they are outside the nation's borders. Tracing such efforts from the debates over the Alien and Sedition Acts in 1798 to present-day controversies about illegal aliens and their children, the author argues that no human being subject to the governance of the United States should be a "stranger to the Constitution. "Thus, whenever the government asserts its power to impose obligations on individuals, it brings them within the constitutional system and should afford them constitutional rights. In Neuman's view, this mutuality of obligation is the most persuasive approach to extending constitutional rights extraterritorially to all U.S. citizens and to those aliens on whom the United States seeks to impose legal responsibilities. Examining both mutuality and more flexible theories, Neuman defends some constitutional constraints on immigration and deportation policies and argues that the political rights of aliens need not exclude suffrage. Finally, in regard to whether children born in the United States to illegally present alien parents should be U.S. citizens, he concludes that the Constitution's traditional shield against the emergence of a hereditary caste of "illegals" should be vigilantly preserved.NoncitizensUnited StatesEmigration and immigration lawUnited StatesCivil rightsUnited StatesNoncitizensEmigration and immigration lawCivil rights342.73/082347.30282Neuman Gerald L.1952-1896404MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910959547903321Strangers to the Constitution4550989UNINA