10 years after the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, Ah Yup, a native of China, petitioned to become a citizen of the United States, after the ratification and adoption of amendments that naturalized immigrants would be granted citizenship based on laws ratified by April 14m 1802: “that any alien, being a free white person, may be admitted to become a citizen,” etc. After the adoption of the thirteenth and fourteenth amendments to the national constitution; the former prohibiting slavery, and-‘ the latter declaring who shall be citizens, congress in the act of July 14, 1870,” and that the Fourteenth Amendment extended full citizenship to persons of African descent in 1868. Ah Yup was denied, as he was of “Mongolian race” and furthermore denied Chinese naturalized citizenship.