The plaintiff [Dred Scott]... was, with his wife and children, held as slaves by the defendant [Sanford], in the State of Missouri; and he brought this action in the Circuit Court of the United ...

The Dred Scott challenge isn't a difficult but rewarding ... control the allegiance—and thus birthright citizenship—of children. I have not claimed, however, that one cannot find any evidence ...

Dred Scott first went to trial to sue for his freedom in 1847. Ten years later, after a decade of appeals and court reversals, his case was finally brought before the United States Supreme Court.

“A child born here of alien parentage becomes ... and stated that all people born in the US are citizens. The 1857 Dred Scott ...