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American by Birth : Wong Kim Ark and the Battle for Citizenship /

"In his infamous opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) Chief Justice Taney had denied that any American descended from Africans, whether free or slave, could claim citizenship. The Fourteenth Amendment's citizenship clause repudiated this principle. The Fourteenth Amendment's conne...

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Main Authors: Nackenoff, Carol (Author), Novkov, Julie, 1966- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2021]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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