Collet v. Collet

2 U.S. 294 (____)

2 Dall. 294

COLLET

versus

COLLET.

Supreme Court of United States.

Present — WILSON, BLAIR and PETERS, Justices.

BY THE COURT: — The question, now agitated, depends upon another question; whether the State of Pennsylvania, since the 26th of March 1790 (when the act of Congress was passed) has a right to naturalize an alien? And this must receive its answer from the solution of a third question; whether, according to the constitution of the United States, the authority to naturalize is exclusive, or concurrent? We are of opinion, then, that the States, individually, still enjoy a…