Lincoln's Attorney General: Edwards Bates and His Historic Opinion on Citizenship |
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This article, by a noted Lincoln scholar, examines the appointment of Edward Bates, Lincoln's attorney general. Bates is known for writing an attorney general opinion that repudiated the Dred Scott opinion to declare that citizenship was an "accident of birth" and that race and color could not disqualify a person from citizenship under the Constitution. Notably, the opinion predates the enactment of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments as well as the Civil Rights Act.
Published in The Public Lawyer, Volume 17, No. 1, January 2009, © 2009 by the American Bar Association.
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