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The Ethics Of Empire, Again (Review Essay), Jedediah Purdy
The Ethics Of Empire, Again (Review Essay), Jedediah Purdy
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Reviewing, Noah Feldman, What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of Nation Building (Princeton University Press, 2004)
Polygamy, Prostitution, And The Federalization Of Immigration Law, Kerry Abrams
Polygamy, Prostitution, And The Federalization Of Immigration Law, Kerry Abrams
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When Congress banned the immigration of Chinese prostitutes with the Page Law of 1875, it was the first restrictive federal immigration statute. Yet most scholarship treats the passage of the Page Law as a relatively unimportant event, viewing the later Chinese Exclusion Act as the crucial landmark in the federalization of immigration law. This Article argues that the Page Law was not a minor statute targeting a narrow class of criminals, but rather an attempt to prevent Chinese women in general from immigrating to the United States. Most Chinese women migrating to the United States in the early 1870s were …