... the drawing of that line across different historical periods. As a result, immigration law has not just reflected racial bias. Rather, these laws, in conjunction with citizenship laws, have also defined racial categories in the United States and delimited the racial boundaries of the nation. Understood...

...This essay argues that most of what has been written in modern times about the Athenian citizenship laws is of very poor quality. For an extreme but by no means unusual view, it is worth looking at Adcock in CAH V 16788: accepting the most common interpretation of the events of 445...