Excerpt from Power of the State to Exclude Foreigners From Its Limits, and to Prevent Their Landing, on Account of the Immorality of Their Past Lives, Considered: Opinion of Mr. Justice Field, of U. S. Supreme Court, Delivered Sept. 21st, 1874, in the Case of Ah Fong, a Chinese Woman, Brought Before the Circuit Court of the United States, for the District of California, on a Writ of Habeas Corpus 3. - 'i'he 6th Article of the Treaty between the United States and China, adopted on the 28th of July, 1868, provides that Chinese subjects visiting or residing in the United States shall enjoy the same privi leges, immunities and exemptions in respect to travel or residence as may there be enjoyed by citizens or subjects of the most favored nation, and as the General Government has not seen fit to attach any limitation to the ingress into the United States of subjects of those nations, none can be applied to the subjects of China.4. - The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution declares that no State shall deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person the equal protection of the laws; Held, that this equality of protection implies not only equal accessibility to the Courts for the prevention or redress of wrongs, and the enforcement of rights, but equal exemption with others of the same class, from all charges and burdens of every kind. Within these limits the power of the State exists, as it did previously to the adoption of the amendment, over all matters of internal police. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.