The 14th Amendment provides that "All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdictionthereof are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside
Catholics overwhelmingly voted Democrat, while Protestants were split between the two parties. Recent Irish and German immigrants generally supported the Democrats, but recent immigrants from England, Scotland, and Wales tended to support the Whigs.
The colonies settled in Pennsylvania
<span>the colonial governments had power to pass laws and create taxes. they also decided how the colony's tax money should be spent. they also elected their own assemblies.
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