Arizona's history of discrimination against aliens

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Something I came across the other day.

Journal of Education, Jan 28, 1915

LIMITS TO DISCRIMINATION

That there are limits beyond which states may not go in discriminations against

aliens is indicated by the decision of a special court of three federal judges,

declaring void the anti-alien act which was adopted in Arizona last November

as an initiative proposal. This act provided that any employer with a payroll

of five or more names must see that at least eighty per cent of these names

were those of duly-qualified electors. The Federal court holds that this statute

violated the guarantees of life, liberty and the possession of property made to

all alike, alien and others, under the Federal Constitution. The court cited

a decision of the United States Supreme Court, to the effect that the right to

labor is a right of property; and held that it came accordingly under the

constitutional protection. The state of Arizona was therefore enjoined from

enforcing the law.

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possession of property?

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possession of property?

I think it was Jefferson who substituted "the pursuit of happiness" for Locke's original "property".