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The sentence in the Dred Scott v. John F.A. Sandford case of March 6, 1857, is one of the most infamous sentences of the US Supreme Court. The judges (7-2) argued that African Americans were not American citizens and then could not sue other people in court; that the 1820 Missouri Compromise that had declared free of slavery all states west of Missouri and north of latitute 36°30′, was unconstitutional; and that slave Dred Scott could not recover his freedom just because he had lived in a free state before. It is considered the worst sentence in judicial American history.
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