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gptkb:United_States_Supreme_Court_case
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gptkbp:alsoKnownAs
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gptkb:Dred_Scott_decision
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gptkbp:citation
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gptkb:60_U.S._(19_How.)_393
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gptkbp:country
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gptkb:United_States
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gptkbp:date
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1857
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gptkbp:dissentingOpinionBy
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gptkb:Benjamin_R._Curtis
gptkb:John_McLean
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gptkbp:heldBy
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African Americans could not be American citizens and had no standing to sue in federal court.
The federal government had no power to regulate slavery in the territories acquired after the creation of the United States.
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https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
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60 U.S. (19 How.) 393
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gptkbp:judge
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gptkb:Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States
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gptkbp:legalSubject
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gptkb:Slavery
Citizenship
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gptkbp:litigant
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gptkb:Dred_Scott
gptkb:John_F._A._Sandford
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gptkbp:majorityOpinionBy
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gptkb:Roger_B._Taney
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gptkbp:officialName
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gptkb:Dred_Scott_v._Sandford
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gptkbp:overruledBy
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gptkb:Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
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gptkbp:pages
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393
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gptkbp:reporter
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gptkb:United_States_Reports
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gptkbp:volume
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60
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gptkbp:bfsParent
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gptkb:Dred_Scott_v._Sandford
gptkb:Dred_Scott_decision
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5
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