Speech #430011326

It was claimed among other things that this grant was in violation of the thir. teenth and fourteenth articles of amendments to the Constitution ot the United States in that it created an involuntary servitude. forbidden by hi thirteenth amendment. that it abridged the priviloaes and immunities of citizens of tl Unitid States. that it. denied to the plaintiffs the equal protection of the laws. that it deprived them of their prop0ery without dat process of law. contrary to the provisions of the firot section of the fourteenth aiiendment. The court held that tha thirteenth amendlment applied only to personal servitude. and not as attached to property. As to thi irsb section of the fourteenth arentient. nalely[ : "All persoasborn or naturalized in the United States. and subject to the jurisdiction thereof. are citizens of the United States and of the States vherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or intinlnitits of citizens of the UnitedStates. nor shall any State depirive any person of life. liberty. or property. witiout duo process of law. nor dhny to anyperson witlin its jurisdiction tlio equal protecton of the laws." the cottrt say. in reference to the lirst clause of that setioli: "Theirst observation we have to make oil this clause is that it puts to restbotli the questionswhich we stated to have been the subject of differences of opinion. It declae that persons maybe citizens of the United States without regard to their citizenship of a particular State. and it overturns the Dred Scott decision by making nlpersons born within the United States. and subject to its jurisdiction. citizens of the United States.