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To: know-the-law

Actually the reason the 14th Amendment was required was because of the Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision. Roger Taney in writing the majority opinion basically said a black person(slave or free) was not, had never been, and could never be a citizen of the United States. 14th made that ruling mute.


77 posted on 04/27/2012 9:45:09 AM PDT by hirn_man
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To: hirn_man

Sorry mute = moot


79 posted on 04/27/2012 9:48:03 AM PDT by hirn_man
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To: hirn_man; Cheburashka

But according to the criteria being presented today, just being born on American soil would make ANYBODY a NBC.

That would include blacks, slaves, chinese, everybody, therefore we would not need the 14th amendment and yet we have the 14th amendment!!!

The passing of the 14th amendment destroys their NBC arguement, but it also exposes the fact that the 14th means something else.

Go back to post #31 and watch the video...


143 posted on 04/27/2012 12:21:32 PM PDT by know-the-law
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