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Chief Justice Roger B. Taney applied the Fifth Amendment in his ruling of the case Dred Scott v. Sandford by asserting that African Americans, whether free or enslaved, were not and could not become citizens of the United States according to the Constitution. Consequently, Taney concluded that Scott had no standing to sue for his freedom in federal court based on his status as a non-citizen.

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