POLI 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Fourteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution, Fifteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution, Equal Rights Amendment

• School: University of Iowa
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 1100
• Professor: Osborn

Document Summary

De jure discrimination - when a law discriminates (written) De facto discrimination - takes place by tradition & habit. You can change the law, but that doesn"t change de facto discrimination. Dred scott v. sanford (1857) - acceptance that black slaves not citizens. The question of slavery is on everyone"s mind. Moved into a free territory with the guy that owned him. His owner died & he was willed to someone else in the family. Dred scott sued & said that he had the right to be free since he moved into free territory. Said that dred scott was not a citizen. Dred scott should have never been able to bring it to the supreme. Court in the first place because he wasn"t a person, he was property. Leaves a lot of people with no citizenship status. Many states tried to put them back into a situation that looked a lot like slavery.