“We might soon see [Chinese] at the polls, in the jury box, upon the bench and in our legislative halls. … It is an actual and present danger.” — People v. Hall, 4 Cal. 399 (1854).
Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence and third president of the United States, would be astonished to see how much the world has changed since the 18th century. While Jefferson wrote that “all men are created equal,” he was focused on the recognition of equality between men like himself and the British king, not between his fellow landowners and enslaved black people. Today, Jefferson’s declaration has become more of a reality for all Americans, but there are chapters from Asian-American history that remind us how stereotypes may compromise or interfere with the judgment of even the most astute legal minds.
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