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It merely granted citizenship to all persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power (though excluding Indians who lived in tribes), and it allowed these people, as citizens, to make contracts, to testify in court,
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“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.”
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