Justice Horace Gray Quote

"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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Categories:	Immigration, Law, Sovereignty, Power, Self-Preservation, Protection
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