Israeli court rejects Israeli nationality status

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6. That was Tandy's Ruling in Dred Scott

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dred_Scott

Now, the Dred Scott decision is one of the most divisive decisions ever issued,

More on US Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger B. Taney:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_B._Taney

Dred Scott case including lower court rulings:
http://digital.wustl.edu/d/dre/browse.html

Six concurring opinions, Two Dissenting opinions, in addition to Tandy's decsion (Join by only two other Justices out of the then 10 Justices).

Tandy's decision:
http://digital.wustl.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=dre;cc=dre;view=text;idno=dre1857.0105.108;rgn=div1;node=dre1857.0105.108%3A1

In the opinion of the court, the legislation and histories of the times, and the language used in the Declaration of Independence, show, that neither the class of persons who had been imported as slaves, nor their descendants, whether they had become free or not, were then acknowledged as a part of the people, nor intended to be included in the general words used in that memorable instrument.

It is difficult at this day to realize the state of public opinion in relation to that unfortunate race, which prevailed in the civilized and enlightened portions of the world at the time of the Declaration of Independence, and when the Constitution of the United States was framed and adopted. But the public history of every European nation displays it in a manner too plain to be mistaken.

They had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations; and so far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit. He was bought and sold, and treated as an ordinary article of merchandise and traffic, whenever a profit could be made by it. This opinion was at that time fixed and universal in the civilized portion of the white race. It was regarded as an axiom in morals as well as in politics, which no one thought of disputing, or supposed to be open to dispute; and men in every grade and position in society daily and habitually acted upon it in their private pursuits, as well as in matters of public concern, without doubting for a moment the correctness of this opinion.