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Citizenship for the united states. not just as it was before the war, where each state kind of declared who was going to be a citizen, the civil war created a sense of a nation, it was a unified nation. >> was it highly politicized back then? some are arguing, you're demagoguing against chinese because of politics? >> the majority wanted to get race out of the definition of citizenship, they felt this was a legacy of slavery to limit one race or another race. they wanted to go to this universal notion of who can be an american. to be an american is not to be a member of a particular race, a pa...

Of the definition of citizenship. they felt this was a legacy of slavery to limit citizenship to one race or another race. they wanted to go to this universal notion of who can be an american. to be an american is not to be a member of a particular race, a particular people, a particular religion, it's to accept the principles of american government, of democracy of liberty, and anybody can do that. and the children of illegal immigrants can do that, they can grow up to become good american citizens, there's no reason they can't. in fact the people in congress who are trying to change the 14th...

Sense of a nation, it was a unified nation. >> was it highly politicized back then? some are arguing, you're demagoguing against chinese because of politics? >> the majority wanted to get race out of the definition of citizenship, they felt this was a legacy of slavery to limit one race or another race. they wanted to go to this universal notion of who can be an american. to be an american is not to be a member of a particular race, a particular people, a particular religion, it's to accept the principles of american government, of democracy of liberty, and anybody can two that. and the childr...