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The EO claims that it's a misrepresentation to say, as Stephen A. Douglas did, that 'our government "was made on the white basis" "by white men, for the benefit
by eesmith 6y ago
The EO claims that it's a misrepresentation to say, as Stephen A. Douglas did, that 'our government "was made on the white basis" "by white men, for the benefit of white men". Our Founding documents rejected these radicalized views of America, which were soundly defeated on the blood-stained battlefields of the Civil War."
Given the slavery in those founding documents, the Naturalization Act of 1790 (which limited naturalization to free white people of good character), the common law practice of the time of coverture, the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, and the post-slavery Jim Crow laws - how was Douglas misrepresenting the Republic at that time?