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LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History 20:4 (December 2023) includes a roundtable on the 100th anniversary of the 1924 Immigration Act.IntroductionEric Arnesen“The Architecture of Immigration Restriction, 1924”Mai Ngai“Nativism and the Bottom Line: Contemporary Legacies of the Immigration Act of 1924”Daniel Tichenor“The Immigration Act of 1924 and Farm Labor” John Weber“Labor’s Long Road to Immigrant Inclusion”Ruth Milkman“The

Jack Balkin (Yale Law School) has posted “Rabbi Akiva and the Crowns: A Parable of Constitutional Fidelity.” The abstract:Historian Jonathan Gienapp argues that the Founding generation held very
different views about constitutions, law, rights, and judicial review
than lawyers do today. His target is conservative originalism, but his
arguments are important for originalists