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To: nickcarraway

The Dred Scott decision, allowing slavery, should still be in place if Supreme Court decisions can never be changed. This is obviously a lie to save the hideous Roe decision.


28 posted on 11/02/2005 3:42:02 AM PST by kittymyrib
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To: kittymyrib
The Dred Scott decision, allowing slavery, should still be in place if Supreme Court decisions can never be changed.

It has never been overturned by the Court. It was rendered powerless by the 14th amendment, proving that the Constitution trumps Court opinions.

33 posted on 11/02/2005 4:03:55 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: kittymyrib
The Dred Scott decision, allowing slavery, should still be in place if Supreme Court decisions can never be changed

Dred Scott did not “allow slavery”. The court decided that all people of African ancestry -- slaves as well as those who were free -- could never become citizens of the United States and therefore could not sue in federal court. This was changed by the 14th Amendment:
“Section 1.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

36 posted on 11/02/2005 4:35:09 AM PST by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
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