Read the passage from the opinion of the court in Dred
Scott v. Sandford, written by Justice Taney.
The question then arises, whether the provisions of the
Constitution, in relation to the personal rights and
privileges to which the citizen of a State should be
entitled, embraced the negro African race, at that time
in this country, or who might afterwards be imported,
who had then or should afterwards be made free in any
State; and to put it in the power of a single State to
make him a citizen of the United States, and endue him
with the full rights of citizenship in every other State
without their consent? Does the Constitution of the
United States act upon him whenever he shall be made
free under the laws of a State, and raised there to the
rank of a citizen, and immediately clothe him with all
the privileges of a citizen in every other State, and in its
own courts?
What claim does Justice Taney make in this passage?
O that Sanford has the right to enslave Scott
O that Scott has the right to be emancipated
O that Scott is not a citizen of Missouri
O that Sanford cannot sue because he is not a citizen