Chy Lung v.
Freeman (1875)
•What is the constitutional flaw in the statute?
•The passage of laws which concern the admission of citizens and subjects
of foreign nations
to our shores belongs to Congress, and not to the States. It has the power to regulate commerce with foreign nations: the
responsibility for the character of those regulations, and for the manner of their execution, belongs
solely to the national government. If it be otherwise, a single State can, at her pleasure, embroil
us in disastrous
quarrels with other nations.