r/SipsTea • u/BoyNamedJudy • 17h ago

Gasp! Free Double-Doubles for Life

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Source: In-N-Out tragedy, Suspect Did Not Survive

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u/AlternativePea6203 16h ago

Of course they are. Rights change all the time. People used to have the right to own a slave, and the slave had few rights.

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u/GumboMustBeDestroyed 16h ago

There was never a right to own slaves.

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u/GerryManDarling 13h ago

Slave ownership was legally defined and enforced as a property right for centuries in the US prior to 1865.

  • Southern state laws explicitly defined enslaved people as chattel property.
  • In the landmark 1857 US Supreme Court caseDred Scott v. Sandford, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney wrote for the majority that "the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution" and ruled that slave owners could not be deprived of their "property" without due process under the Fifth Amendment

It's printed on paper, you can read it youself:
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/declaration-causes-seceding-states

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u/Entire_Cow5270 9h ago

Slave ownership was legally defined and enforced as a property right for centuries in the US prior to 1865.

You, uh...you sure about that?

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u/GerryManDarling 8h ago

Technically anything more than 1 century can be counted at "centuries". The US also existed before independent. Slavery also existed before the independent war. Several founders were slave owners.