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On the recordMay 11, 2021
The explicit reasoning behind the most famous of the cases, Downes v. Bidwell in 1901 was that the new territories are inhabited by alien races that could not be governed by Anglo-Saxon principles.
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Gregorio Sablan
Democratic · Northern Mariana Islands

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Sablan discusses the discriminatory basis of the Insular Cases.

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