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...Citizenship is a state matter, and Missouri has a right to determine who its own citizens are,” Finkelman said, speaking from an 1857 perspective. “No black can ever be a citizen of Missouri...
...case considered a claim by Scott—a Missouri slave who lived in the free state of Illinois with his owner—that should be free because of the time they had spent in Illinois...
...needed to show what is called “diversity of citizenship”—that he and his owner were citizens of different states. But Paul Finkelman, a professor at Albany Law School and an expert witness for Scott’s owner, argued that under Missouri state law, Scott could not be considered a citizen...
...judges agreed that the easiest thing for the 1857 court to have done would have been to determine that Scott was not a citizen, dismiss the case, and allow the ruling of the Missouri Supreme Court to stand...
Others, looking home, see signs that make them hopeful. Olivier Pourquié, a scientist who moved from Marseille to Kansas City, Missouri, five years ago, is pleased that a younger generation of politicians is finally taking power in France. "Whoever is elected, it will mean an end to the gerontocracy. It's time to move to something more dynamic," he says. Pourquié left France out of frustration with the rigid state-funded scientific establishment - and because the American lab where he now works, the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, offered him a package of pay and perks that...