what claim does justice taney make in this passage?
a. that sanford has the right to enslave scott
b. that scott has the right to be emancipated
c. that scott is not a citizen of missouri
d. that sanford cannot sue because he is not a citizen
read the passage from the opinion of the court in dred
scotty. 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?
the court thinks the affirmative of these propositions