Question

We think ... that [black people] instrument provides for and secures to citizens of the United States. On the contrary, they were at that time [of America's founding] considered as a subordinate and inferior class of beings who had been subjugated by the dominant race, and, whether emancipated or not, yet remained subject to their authority, and had no rights or privileges but such as those who held the power and the Government might choose to grant them.”

-Opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States, March 6, 1857


The opinion above is from which landmark Supreme Court case?
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Answer 1

That quote is from the Supreme Court's majority opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. (19 How.) 393 (1857).