They perfectly understood the meaning of the language
Which statement best explains the fallacy in the
they used, and how it would be understood by others; and
argument?
they knew that it would not in any part of the civilized
world be supposed to embrace the negro race, which, by
Taney is quick to assume that the writers of the US
common consent, had been excluded from civilized
Constitution excluded African Americans born in the
Governments and the family of nations, and doomed to
country from citizenship.
slavery.
Taney unfairly appeals to human emotion by
-Dred Scott v. Sandford,
creating a sense of hopelessness for enslaved
Supreme Court of the United States
persons during the time of the case.
Because the Constitution does not explicitly
exclude African Americans from citizenship, Taney
is begging the claim.
The men who wrote the Constitution made a
mistake in not writing about the position of enslaved
people within the nation.