You can argue that free black Americans were not citizens under the laws of *some* states, but that is a different question.
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If you're moving the goalposts from "there were not black people living as free citizens" to "not all free black Americans were citizens under the laws of their states," then you've conceded the point.https://twitter.com/jbouie/status/1424726715906076679 …
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I've written about the citizenship clause of the 14th amendment, which overturned Dred & settled the question of whether states could have different definitions of citizenshiphttps://www.nationalreview.com/corner/constitutional-originalism-requires-birthright-citizenship/ …
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Can you cite to that portion of Dred Scott, cause I don't remember it. Also, as I recall Dred was a jurisdictional case that Taney, without any basis, shoehorned into this issue that wasn't addressed in the lower courts.
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60 U.S. 403-07.
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Read a book, dude. Or the actual case
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This is the mother of all bad faith arguments.
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Like Dan is saying, isn't semantics enough? Do black people really want or need the practical protection of citizenship and its cumbersome laundry list of rights and dignities?
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Pretty sure the only way you could see this issue as settled is if you're giving the primacy of the historical narrative to the legal system and not the people living within it. Question of your priority, I guess.
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Do you think the fire department are arsonists?
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He also blames cancer on oncologists
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