"It is an accepted maxim of international law that every sovereign nation has the power, as inherent in sovereignty, and essential to self-preservation, to forbid the entrance of foreigners within its dominions ..." | by: | Justice Horace Gray
(1828-1902) Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court |
Source: | Justice Gray in the majority opinion for Nishimura Ekiu v. United States, (1892) |
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