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93 Colum. L. Rev. 1833 (1993)
Issue 8

handle is hein.journals/clr93 and id is 1847 raw text is: COLUMBIA LAW REVIEW VOL. 93 DECEMBER 1993 NO. 8 THE LOST CENTURY OF AMERICAN IMMIGRATION LAW (1776-1875) Gerald L. Neuman* INTRODUCTION ................................................. 1833 I. THE NEED FOR INVESTIGATION ............................. 1835 II. MAJOR CATEGORIES OF STATE IMMIGRATION LEGISLATION .... 1841 A . Crim e ................................................ 1841 B. Poverty and Disability ................................. 1846 1. M assachusetts ..................................... 1848 2. New York ......................................... 1852 3. Other States and Federal Responses ............... 1857 C. Contagious Disease ................................... 1859 D. Race and Slavery ..................................... 1865 1. Prohibiting Immigration'of Free Blacks to the State. 1866 2. The Seamen's Acts ................................ 1873 3. The Migration of Slaves ........................... 1878 E. Ideological Restriction and Alien Registration .......... 1880 F. Sum m ary ............................................. 1883 III. Two OBJECTIONS ......................................... 1884 A. The Ineffectiveness of State Regulation ................ 1884 B. The Constitutionality of State Immigration Legislation . 1885 1. Exclusive Federal Power ........................... 1886 2. Immigration Under Treaties ....................... 1894 IV. WHAT FOLLOWS? ........................................... 1896 CONCLUSION ................................................... 1901 INTRODUCTION Legal discussions of immigration regulation in the United States rest upon a myth. This pervasive myth asserts that the borders of the * Professor of Law, Columbia University School of Law. This Article is dedicated to C., who has waited a long time for it. I owe deep gratitude to Bradley J. Nicholson, who spent the summer of 1988 collecting statutes with me, and diverse thanks to many others, including Barbara Black, Seth Kreimer, Bruce Mann, Henry Monaghan, Eben Moglen, John Mulkern, John Scanlan, Maryellen Fullerton and the other participants in a faculty workshop at Brooklyn Law School, and the staffs of Biddle Law Library and Columbia Law Library. For generous support of the research, I thank the Ida Russell Cades Memorial Fund, the Dean's Fund, the Institute for Law and Economics of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, theJohn M. Olin Foundation, the Samuel Rubin Program for the Advancement of Law and Equality Through Law and the Walter E. Meyer Research in Law and Social Problems Fund of the Columbia University School of Law. 1833

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