"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law." — Fourteenth Amendment, Section 1, ratified 1868
Which prior Supreme Court decision did Section 1 most directly overturn?
- A
McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
- B
Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)
- C
Marbury v. Madison (1803)
- Dcheck_circle
Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
Explanation
By granting birthright citizenship to "all persons born... in the United States," the amendment nullified Taney's holding in Dred Scott that African Americans could not be citizens. The other cases concerned judicial review and federal-state commerce/banking power.