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![mmigration and Naturalization Law
The principles of national constitutionalism have a relatively straightforward application to immigration and naturalization law. If the government may not destroy or replace the People, or otherwise usurp their sovereignty (or permit their sovereignty to be usurped), and if the People are an identifiable, substantive, and organic legal entity (and not merely the statistical collection of all people within the United States), then government power to permit immigration or naturalization is not plenary. National constitutionalism therefore advocates subjecting to judicial review—with the highest level of scrutiny—all attempts by the federal government to “dissolve the people and elect another’”” through immigration and naturalization policies which have the effect of altering the traditional, racial demographic balance of the United States and thereby degrading the People’s power and privileges. Accordingly, Taney’s dictum in Dred Scott that Congress “may, if they think proper, authorize the naturalization of anyone, of any color, who was born under allegiance to another Government”? is anathema to the implicit limitations, entailed by popular sovereignty, placed upon the constituted power of the nation-state and should be rejected as a matter of law.
The effect of this would simply be a return to the pre-1870 status quo whereby only Whites could typically immigrate and seek naturalization.79 Non-Whites would
76 Id. at 323 (citing ROBERT BARNHART, THE BARNHART CONCISE DICTIONARY OF ETYMOLOGY: THE ORIGINS OF AMERICAN ENGLISH WORDS 397 (1995)).
77 Bertolt Brecht, The Solution (1959), reprinted in BERTOLT BRECHT POEMS 1913-1956, 440 (John Willett and Ralph Manheim, eds., Methuen 1976).
7860 U.S. at 419.
79 This is a historically workable standard. See generally IAN HANEY LOPEZ, WHITE By LAW 2-7 (2006) (describing various court cases in American history aimed at determining if the petitioner was White, and explaining how “[t]hough …](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wovz3whdkughp6decczypkqq/bafkreigfjpsrzwwpvu7klaw3gljjnrun4aoafznbpryilyn7ymcs6l72uu)
