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When the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified on July 9, 1868 —150 years ago this Monday — it closed the door on schemes that aimed to make the U.S. a white man’s country.

spoke of the large and generous policy of America from the earliest times toward the Irish race. She had opened to them her wide domain. She had given them not only a home, but a country ...

In 1868, the United States entered into the treaty ... It would be easy to think of this 150-year-old document as an artifact of America’s uncomfortable past, says Darrell Drapeau, a member ...