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17 Aug 2020, 10:00 am by Guest Blogger
Sandford, 60 U.S. 393 (1857), the Supreme Court held that persons of African descent could never become citizens of the United States. [read post]
26 Oct 2013, 7:09 pm
Sandford, 60 U.S. 393 (1856) ("The change in public opinion and feeling in relation to the African race which has taken place since the adoption of the Constitution cannot change its construction and meaning, and it must be construed and administered now according to its true meaning and intention when it was formed and adopted" Ibid., Part I ¶ 9)), or to choose a position where social norms are contested (Roe v. [read post]