All means all. The guarantee of birthright citizenship goes back centuries, but the need for the United States to codify the rule became necessary after Dred Scott v. Sandford, the infamous 1857 ...

Abraham Lincoln’s administration, rejecting the reasoning of Dred Scott v. Sandford, had already acknowledged ... in an official opinion, “The Constitution uses the word ‘citizen’ only ...

The Supreme Court has rejected them all. For example, in the 1898 case Wong Kim Ark v. United States, a young Californian named Wong Kim Ark visited family in China, then tried to return to the ...

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The saga begins before the Civil War with the Supreme Court’s infamous Dred Scott v. Sandford decision in 1857, which denied citizenship to people of African descent even if they were not enslaved.

Scott v. Sandford, better known as the Dred Scott decision. This 1857 decision, written for the majority of the court by Taney (who pronounced his name as “tawny”) remains a stain on American ...

The clause's purpose was to overturn the infamous 1857 Supreme Court case, Dred Scott v. Sandford, and thereby ensure that ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives ... individuals born in the U.S. were American citizens. Then, in Dred Scott v. Sandford, in 1856, the Supreme Court held that enslaved ...

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That provision rightly repudiated the Supreme Court of the United States’s shameful decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. (19 How.) 393 (1857), which misinterpreted the Constitution as ...

Editorials and other Opinion content offer perspectives ... born in the U.S. were American citizens. Then, in Dred Scott v. Sandford, in 1856, the Supreme Court held that enslaved individuals ...