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(6 pp). Everything changes. The legal system in
the United States is not immune to change,
particularly in the area of race relations,
citizenship and its attending rights. Four
historic legal cases reflect the attitudes of the
courts: Dred Scott v Sandford (1857), Plessy v
Ferguson (1895), Brown v Board of Education (1954),
and Regent v Bakke (1978). These four cases and
their history are examined within this paper
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Written by for the Paperstore, Inc., October 2000 Introduction Everything changes. The legal system in the United States is not immune
to change, particularly in the area of race relations, citizenship and its attending rights. Four historic legal cases which follow reflect the changing attitudes of the courts. Dred Scott v
Sandford (1857) The Dred Scott decision was an important ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States on the issue of slavery. The decision declared that no black,
slave or free, could claim United States citizenship. It also stated that Congress could not prohibit slavery in U.S. territories. The ruling prompted angry resentment in the North and
led the nation one step closer to civil war. It also influenced the introduction and the passage of the fourteenth amendment of the Constitution after the Civil War.
The amendment adopted in 1868, extended citizenship to former slaves and gave them full civil rights. The turn that is interesting, here, is that while suing for his freedom, Scott
and his lawyers took the case to the Supreme Court. By a majority of 7 to 2, the Supreme Court ruled that Scott could not bring a suit in
a federal court. Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, speaking for the majority, declared that the reason that Scott could not do so, was because blacks were not U.S. citizens. But
there was a growing national desire, brought about by the interest in Western expansion, for a ruling on the constitutionality of such laws as the Missouri Compromise (prohibited slavery in
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