Aliens
group · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
aliens · resident aliens
in the texts
Against Theocrines
Resident non-citizens (metics) at Athens, invoked as a group who ordinarily enjoy freedom of speech, unlike the speaker's family in its current plight.
We will not burden you by constantly repeating these things, for the defendant has brought us into such plight that, as I said at the outset, we have no hope of sharing in that freedom of speech which is granted even to aliens.
Against Timocrates
Noncitizen residents harmed in the tax-collection abuses.
Then why, you unparalleled scoundrels, instead of confiscating estates and houses, and putting them on the schedule, did you imprison and maltreat men who were full citizens, as well as those unhappy aliens, whom you treated more outrageously than your own domestic slaves?
The Unconstitutionality of Slavery
Non-citizens residing in or entering the United States, identified as the class meant by 'all other persons'.
The word “free” then describes the native and naturalized citizens of the United States, and the words “all other persons” describe resident aliens, “Indians not taxed,” and possibly some others.
” And what makes the argument the more absurd is, that by going out of the instrument to the then existing State constitutions—the only instruments to which we can go—we can find there no other persons for the words to apply to—no other classes answering to the description of the “free persons” and “all other persons,”—than the very classes suggested by the United States constitution itself, to wi …