In a sparsely attended event on March 25 in Morris Library, Catherine Davis, a longtime anti-abortion activist and founder of ...

If a person is born in Ohio or anywhere else in the United States to anybody other than a foreign diplomat or a member of an ...

President Donald Trump should follow Abraham Lincoln in responding to judicial overreach, former appeals court clerk Josh ...

The Fourtheenth Amendment has been used in divisive ways, giving the lie to its claim of “equal protection” under the law. We ...

The historian Samuel Eliot Morison described it in 1969 as the most important court case involving slavery before being eclipsed by that of Dred Scott v. Sandford in 1857. You may use this ...

Today in history: Advertisement Article continues below this ad On March 6, 1857, the U.S. Supreme Court, in the Dred Scott v. Sandford decision, ruled 7-2 that Scott, an enslaved person ...

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“Common law doctrine [of citizenship by birth] was the law of the land until it was erroneously rejected by the Supreme Court in its 1857 decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford, which declared that ...

The amendment was adopted following the Civil War and had the effect of annulling the Supreme Court’s infamous 1857 decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford, which held that Black people were excluded ...

Following the Civil War, Dred Scott v. Sandford was overturned by the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments. On May 26, 1857, Dred and Harriet Scott were granted their freedom. [3] Dred Scott was born ...

Former Cabinet Secretary Raphael Tuju has accused Supreme Court of Kenya judges of bias and irresponsibility in handling key ...

Previous Supreme Court cases, like Dred Scott v Sandford in 1857, had determined that African Americans could never be US citizens. The 14th Amendment overrode that. In 1898, the US Supreme Court ...