American by birth : Wong Kim Ark and the battle for citizenship / Carol Nackenoff and Julie Novkov.

"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)
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Language:English
Published: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2021]
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American by birth : Wong Kim Ark and the battle for citizenship / by Nackenoff, Carol, Novkov, Julie, 1966-

Published 2021
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