Citizenship, is this the reason they has to pass the 14th Amendment?

I came across Attorney General Bates opinion on citizenship you all may find very enlightening:


https://books.google.com/books?id=1v...enship&f=false

https://books.google.com/books?id=Ku...%20506&f=false

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/fed.../370/case.html

https://books.google.com/books?id=RY...0color&f=false


Ok, as linked above, I came across this opinion from Attorney General Bates where he is asked about a "colored" man in command of a ship if he was a citizen of the United States, previously Attorney General Wirt had the opinion that colored people could not be citizens of the United States.

These are from Bates.
Attachment 4451
Attachment 4452

This is from Wirt
Attachment 4453

Attachment 4454

The case Wirt cites is this:

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/fed.../370/case.html

My opinion:

They had to pass the 14th to get over the ruling of Scott v. Sanford (1857).

There are levels to status:

1) citizen
2) denizen
3) alien whether resident or foreign
4) slave

Condition refers to whether free or servile.

Ultimately, this is about the opinions of some officers in some body corporate.

Under the law of nature, all men are free. It is man's law that seeks to involuntarily subjugate another and then rationalize it as law (positive law), religion, philosophy, or whatever.

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Originally Posted by shikamaru

My opinion:

They had to pass the 14th to get over the ruling of Scott v. Sanford (1857).

There are levels to status:

1) citizen
2) denizen
3) alien whether resident or foreign
4) slave

Condition refers to whether free or servile.

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Read Bates opinion, he breaks it down for us. The case you cite was not novel, they had already ran into such issues previously.

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Originally Posted by Gavilan

Read Bates opinion, he breaks it down for us.

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1. These opinions are decades before the Dread Scott decision.
2. An attorneys general of a State is an officer of the government of that State. Different states treated "people of color" differently given their prejudices and history.

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Originally Posted by shikamaru

1. These opinions are decades before the Dread Scott decision.
2. An attorneys general of a State is an officer of the government of that State. Different states treated "people of color" differently given their prejudices and history.

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That's right, which Bates explains therein.

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Originally Posted by Gavilan

That's right, which Bates explains therein.

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Which explains the Dread Scott decision decades later to standardize the law across the several States which leads to the Civil War and ultimately the 14th Amendment to overturn that Supreme Court ruling.

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Originally Posted by shikamaru

Which explains the Dread Scott decision decades later to standardize the law across the several States which leads to the Civil War and ultimately the 14th Amendment to overturn that Supreme Court ruling.

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Yep, that's what I was thinking. But you know, it didn't overturned the ruling, that ruling is still law.

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Originally Posted by Gavilan

Yep, that's what I was thinking. But you know, it didn't overturned the ruling, that ruling is still law.

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My understanding is that Supreme Court rulings can be overturned by constitutional amendment which is what we have here.

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Originally Posted by shikamaru

My understanding is that Supreme Court rulings can be overturned by constitutional amendment which is what we have here.

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Here is a link to the case. https://supreme.justia.com/cases/fed.../393/case.html

I am short of time at the moment, but I will see if we can discuss this further a bit later.

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Originally Posted by Gavilan

Here is a link to the case. https://supreme.justia.com/cases/fed.../393/case.html

I am short of time at the moment, but I will see if we can discuss this further a bit later.

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If this is still law, where is this law practiced in these United States?

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Originally Posted by shikamaru

If this is still law, where is this law practiced in these United States?

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Are you talking about slavery? or Citizenship?

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Originally Posted by Gavilan

Are you talking about slavery? or Citizenship?

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Citizenship.

Slavery has been transmuted into voluntary servitude and incarceration. That affects all people in these United States. Some of the aforementioned affects some more than others disproportionately.