On What Grounds Did Justice David J

question 98

Multiple Choice

On what grounds did Justice David J. Brewer dissent from the majority opinion in the case of Fong Yue Ting (1893) that authorized the federal government to expel Chinese aliens without due process of law?

• A) He argued that Chinese were mostly decent and honorable and worthy of Americans' respect.
• B) Brewer worried that a similar rationale could be used in the future to subvert the rights to due process of other people.
• C) He explained that Chinese immigrants should be expelled on grounds of the Naturalization Act, not the Fourteenth Amendment.
• D) He reasoned that the Constitution of the United States had never applied to any group of immigrants.
• E) He argued that the United States would suffer serious disadvantages in foreign trade and diplomacy under this precedent.

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