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..... thus, the court has consistently recognized that while new citizens must have the same opportunity to enjoy the privileges of being a citizen of a state, the states retain the ability to use bona fide residence requirements to ferret out those who intend to take the privileges and run. as this court explained ..... colonial-era conception of the terms "privileges" and "immunities," concluding that article iv encompassed only fundamental rights that belong to all citizens of the united states.4 id., at 552. justice washington's opinion in corfield indisputably influenced the members of congress who enacted the fourteenth amendment. when congress gathered to ..... , would have only a miniscule impact on benefit levels. indeed, as one of the legislators apparently interpreted this concern, it would logically prompt the states to reduce benefit levels sufficiently "to encourage emigration of benefit recipients." 25 but speculation about such an unlikely eventuality provides no basis for upholding 11450. .....
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..... have invariably described restitutionary relief as "equitable" without even mentioning, much less dwelling upon, the ancient classifications on which today's holding rests. see, e. g., tull v. united states, 481 u. s. 412 , 424 (1987) (restitution "traditionally considered an equitable remedy"); mertens, 508 u. s., at 255 (restitution is a "remedy traditionally viewed as ..... l. rev., at 36 (analyzing mertens and explaining that "only equitable restitution will be available under section 502(a)(3)"). likewise, in harris trust and sav. bank v. salomon smith barney inc., 530 u. s. 238 (2000), we noted that "an action for restitution against a transferee of tainted plan assets" is " ..... benefits that they conferred. the kind of restitution that petitioners seek, therefore, is not equitable, but legal. mertens, supra, at 256, and harris trust and sav. bank v. salomon smith barney inc., 530 u. s. 238 , 253, distinguished. pp. 212-218. (d) finally, the court rejects the government's argument that .....
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