In Dred Scott v. Stanford (1857), a 7–2 majority on the United States Supreme Court held that African Americans are not American citizens and upheld slavery as being legal nationwide.
In the United States v. Windsor (2013), a 5–4 majority of the United States Supreme Court held that the then–eighty-three-year-old Edith Windsor is, in fact, an American citizen and thus is entitled to have her marriage equality recognized under federal law.
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Published on February 19, 2015 18:35