169 U.S. 649 (1898) Cited 303 times 3 Legal Analyses
Holding that the legislative power to prescribe a uniform rule of naturalization reaches to the bestowal of United States citizenship upon foreigners and upon foreign-born children of United States citizens alike
Holding that women do not have the right to vote as citizens of the United States because the “Constitution ... does not confer a right of suffrage upon any one, and the constitution and laws of the several States which commit that important trust to men alone are not necessarily void”