Republican (nationalist) President Arthur—without a constitutional amendment—signs the Foran Alien Contract Labor Act, prohibiting the immigration of free market workers who have earned their passage through an agreement of indentured servitude (temporary slavery).

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• Article I, Section 8 [Clause 4] grants Congress “Power to … To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States.”