Which Supreme Court decision was most directly repudiated by the citizenship language of the Fourteenth Amendment?
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Correct answer: Dred Scott v. Sandford
Dred Scott v. Sandford had declared that African Americans could not be citizens of the United States. The Fourteenth Amendment rejected that view by defining national citizenship broadly.
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