I'm not sure I'm convinced. It seems to me that the federal government's jurisdiction over rules of naturalization would logically imply some authority over immigration. Given the "freedom of movement" that residents of the United States enjoy--freedom to move between states--wouldn't a state's allowing, say, Mexican immigrants to enter en masse pose problems for other states who didn't want them?
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Rob, I'm a bit new to this issue. Tell me, if only nine or ten states had ratified the constitution, would it have been imposed in some way on the others? Or would have had a divided American people, some in the United States and some not?
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