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Trump v. Barbara · ¶17

To understand the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, it is first necessary to understand the context in which it arose—and the opinion of this Court, Dred Scott v. Sandford, 19 How. 393 (1857), that it rejected.
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slip opinion, revised 7/01/26
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