Time: Thu Oct 31 07:29:45 1996 To: Norman Olson <nolso@sunny.ncmc.cc.mi.us> From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: DRED SCOTT Cc: Bcc: At 09:05 AM 10/31/96 -0500, you wrote: > >Now a question for you Robert. > > I have been working with people in Detroit who recognize >their limitations under the Constitution. A significant number >of these people have asked me if they should apply for citizenship. >If they do, and they are accepted by the US Government, will they >be regarded as people having the same rights and guarantees as the >rest of us white folks? Have them apply to state Superior Court for naturalization as state Citizens. The authority for this is Ex parte Knowles, 5 Cal. 300: Congress makes the rules, the states implement the rules. This case is still standing. If we must repeat the errors made after Dred Scott, let's at least learn from those errors this time. Taney put it very plainly: if you find apartheid offensive, there is a mechanism in the Constitution for changing it, so as to abolish apartheid. From that, we got the 14th amendment [sic]. See Dyett v. Turner for proof that Congress botched it horribly, and we still suffer from that grievous breach of lawful conduct. /s/ Paul Mitchell
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