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What right was Dred Scott denied in his famous Supreme Court case?

right of citizenship
right to free speech
right of petition
right to vote

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right of citizenship

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Taney became best known for writing the final majority opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford, which said that all people of African descent, free or enslaved, were not United States citizens and therefore had no right to sue in federal court

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