In the Dred Scott case it was established that every State had the right to fix and determine upon the qualification of its own citizens. that it had a perfect right to say that one of African blood should not be a citizen. Such was the condition of the law when the fourteenth amendment was adopted. and that chan(.cd all this and established it that every person born or naturalizei in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof should be a citizen of the United States and of the State in which le resides. Before that amendment citizenship of the United States. except in the single case of naturalization. was derivative fron State citizenship. and the State could exclude onehalf or ninetenths of all her people from being citizens of the United States. Then we have this case: Before the amendment there were United States electors with specified qualifications. Before the anindment Congress had the right to regulae te ie manner in which those electorsshould cast their votes.
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