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It's a kind of long decision, but essentially it says that African-Americans are not and cannot be citizens because they are property. It then says that it is unconstitutional to declare some states to be "free states" (where slavery was banned), because then a slaveowner who traveled to that state with his slaves, and thus lost possession of them, would have had his property taken away from him without due process (5th amendment). It strikes down the Missouri Compromise as unconstitutional, and was a major factor leading to the Civil War.

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