The Chinese Exclusion Case

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that questions regarding the political soundness of the amendment “are not questions for judicial determination”
• holding that congressional authority is always limited “by the Constitution itself and considerations of public policy and justice which control, more or less, the conduct of all civilized nations”
• holding that power to exclude foreign nationals is “incident of sovereignty belonging to the government of the United States,” and Congress’s determinations regarding whom to 68 exclude are conclusive and binding on judiciary
• holding that power to exclude foreign nationals is “incident of sovereignty belonging to the government of the United States,” and Congress’s determinations regarding whom to 68 exclude are conclusive and binding on judiciary
• noting that threats to national security can come both \from the foreign nation acting in its national character or from vast hordes of its people crowding in upon us\
• noting that threats to national security can come both “from the foreign nation acting in its national character or from vast hordes of its people crowding in upon us”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).