With the debate raging about “heritage Americans,” Paul Kersey and Sam Dickson discuss Madison Grant’s 1928 “The Founders of the Republic on Immigration, Naturalization and Aliens” for insight into what the Founding Fathers said about citizenship and naturalization, with quotes from Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and John Quincy Adams.
Grant assembled these passages to defend the Anglo-Saxon character of America, which he regarded as indispensable both to liberty and to the Republic’s survival against the ravages of unfettered democracy.
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