At a time when Indian were not eligible for a US citizenship, Bhicaji Balsara, a textile merchant from Bombay (now Mumbai), ...

However, per the 1790 Naturalization Act, only “free white persons” and non-whites of “good moral character” could become naturalized citizens. With documentation records destroyed in the ...

That grant, along with these naturalization statutes of 1790 and 1795, edifies us about the Framers’ conception of citizenship, and of the status of aliens and their children. Status questions ...