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"My opinion with respect to immigration is, that except of useful mechanics and some particular description of men and professions, there is no use of encouragement." - George Washington

Washington recognized America was a country of Christian Europeans with common cause and goals and it was important to keep it that way.

"With slight shades of difference, you have the same religion, manners, habits, and political principles. You have in a common cause fought and triumphed together. The independence and liberty you possess are the work of joint councils and joint efforts, of common dangers, sufferings, and successes."

From his farewell address.

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/farewell-address

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"The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquillity at home, your peace abroad, of your safety, of your prosperity, of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that from different causes and from different quarters much pains will be taken, many artifices employed, to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth, as this is the point in your political fortress against which the batteries of internal and external enemies will be most constantly and actively (though often covertly and insidiously) directed, it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national union to your collective and individual happiness; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned, and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts."

And also Washington and of course he was speaking of the opinion of the time by all the founders recognize that religion ( which I'll remind you he expressed in the same speech above was the common religion of Christianity which differed very little among the people of the country when it was formed) must be part of the government. The absolute opposite of the argument made today that should be excluded from government.

"Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness--these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connections with private and public felicity. Let it simply be asked, Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice? And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle."


Thus we have the man who was perhaps one of the most instrumental in the founding and discussions and writing of the Constitution and implementing it and its first president stating unequivocally that America was a Christian Nation composed of people of common origin meaning Europeans and that preservation of religion meaning that Christian religion of course in the government was essential and was the intention is f the founders.

Hero President Trump,is just following the forethought of the "Founding Fathers"!

GREATEST PRESIDENT SINCE WASHINGTON IS PRESIDENT TRUMP.

No, he is not perfect, neither was Washington, neither are you or me, but this President LOVES this country. As a reminder, he is trying to guide this country for
Z E R O pay. Tell me past presidents that work for free? ESPECIALLY for the hell msm does to Trump and family.

May those of you on the left go to hell,...slowly

The Naturalization Act of 1790 (1 Stat. 103, enacted March 26, 1790) was a law of the United States Congress that set the first uniform rules for the granting of United States citizenship by naturalization. The law limited naturalization to "free white person(s) ... of good character". This eliminated ambiguity on how to treat newcomers, given that free black people had been allowed citizenship at the state level in many states. In reading the Naturalization Act, the courts also associated whiteness with Christianity and thus excluded Muslim immigrants from citizenship until the decision Ex Parte Mohriez recognized citizenship for a Saudi Muslim man in 1944.[5]

Congress modeled the act on the Plantation Act 1740 of the British Parliament (13 Geo. 2. c. 7) that was officially titled An Act for Naturalizing such foreign Protestants and others therein mentioned, as are settled or shall settle in any of His Majesty's Colonies in America, and used its provisions concerning time, oath of allegiance, the process of swearing before a judge, etc.

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Signed into law by President George Washington on March 26, 1790

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalization_Act_of_1790#:~:text=The%20Naturalization%20Act%20of%201790,an%20uniform%20Rule%20of%20Naturalization.

So modeled on an anti-Catholic law. Unsurprising. You couldn't be Catholic and hold office in at least New Hampshire. Maybe others. Edit: "The states that allowed only Protestants to hold office were Georgia (1777), Massachusetts (1780), New Hampshire (1784), New Jersey (1776), North Carolina (1776), South Carolina (1778), and Vermont (1777). Three states — Delaware, Maryland, and Pennsylvania (all 1776) — required only that officeholders be Christian"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantation_Act_1740

https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/religious-oaths/#:~:text=The%20states%20that%20allowed%20only,only%20that%20officeholders%20be%20Christian.

"The policy or advantage of [immigration] taking place in a body (I mean the settling of them in a body) may be much questioned; for, by so doing, they retain the language, habits, and principles (good or bad) which they bring with them. Whereas by an intermixture with our people, they, or their descendants, get assimilated to our customs, measures, and laws: in a word, soon become one people." - George Washington

Washington warned against the kind of judicial branch encroachment on the power of other branches that we see today.

"It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free country should inspire caution in those intrusted with its administration to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding in the exercise of the powers of one department to encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism. A just estimate of that love of power and proneness to abuse it which predominates in the human heart is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position. The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power, by dividing and distributing it into different depositories, and constituting each the guardian of the public weal against invasions by the others, has been evinced by experiments ancient and modern, some of them in our country and under our own eyes. To preserve them must be as necessary as to institute them. If in the opinion of the people the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this in one instance may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed. The precedent must always greatly overbalance in permanent evil any partial or transient benefit which the use can at any time yield."

As company Washington enjoyed "good Federal characters" for whom the "best dessert" was anti-Republican cuisine. And when his friends asked him in 1799 to run again for the presidency in 1800, his sharp awareness of party - not the idea of rotation in office or term limits - colored his reasons for declining. Sadly, it had become impossible, he remarked, to be a national leader. "I am thoroughly convinced," he wrote, "I should not draw a single vote from the anti-federal side." He explained that his Republican opponents could choose as their candidate "a broomstick," but if the broomstick were called a "true son of Liberty," it would command "their votes in toto!"

The dark menace of parties also disposed the president to lend credence to a variety of conspiracy theories circulating among Federalists. He entertained the bizarre notion that a sect of upper-class European mystics, the "Illuminati," wanted to take over the United States - along with the rest of the world. It was "too evident to be questioned," he wrote, that the "diabolical tenets" of the Illuminati had infected American society through the medium of the Democratic societies.

"The idealistic president, who had wanted the United States to be a place of asylum for "the poor, the needy, and the oppressed of the Earth," in 1798 endorsed the Alien Act authorizing the president to deport foreigners regarded as dangerous. He now viewed immigrants as a potentially conspiratorial fifth column sent to America "for the express purpose of poisoning the minds of our people" and alienating them from the "government of their choice." And the president who had been the target of a virulent press but had moderately counseled against reprisals, also endorsed the Sedition Act, passing along to his friends the judicial opinion that upheld it and remarking that, if the charges against one editor were true, "punishment ought to be inflicted."