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Todd Todd is offline
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You guys will love this. This from the Dread Scott ruling.
Go down to the fifth lien from the bottom:

Reference:
http://www.niagarafallsreporter.com/...unControl.html

"[If black people were] entitled to the privileges and
immunities of citizens, it would exempt them from the
operation of the special laws and from the police regulations
which [Southern states] considered to be necessary for their
own safety. It would give the persons of the negro race,
who were recognized as citizens in any one State of
the Union...the full liberty of speech in public and in
private upon all subjects upon which its own citizens might
speak; to hold public meetings upon political affairs, and
to keep and carry arms wherever they went. And all of this
would be done in the face of the subject race of the
same color, both free and slaves, inevitably producing
discontent and insubordination among them, and endangering
the peace and safety of the State."

I love the "wherever they want" part.