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Help Please--How can you vote if you are not a citizen?

On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Finkelman, Paul <
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> Rather, Taney said that "blacks" could not sue even if they were free
> people.  He asserts that even in Massachusetts, Vermont, or other states
> where blacks could vote (and hold office) they could not be citizens of the
> United States




-- 
Douglas Burnett
Satellite Beach
FL
As a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists (APG), the
National Genealogical Society (NGS), the Florida State Genealogical
Society(FSGS) and the Virginia Genealogical  Society(VGS), I support and
adhere to the APG's Code of Ethics.

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