Case,1 however, Chief Justice Taney, writing for the Court, ruled that this rule did not apply to freed slaves. Amendments was ''the freedom of the slave race.Scott, a slave, argued that he was free because his owner had taken him to territory where slavery was banned. The conspicuous exception to this was the holding in the Dred Scott case that former slaves, as non-citizens, could not claim the protections of the clause. Any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave. Both sides in the debate over slavery accepted that slave trade policy would have a major impact on the future of slavery in the new nation. Paradoxly the slave was considered chattel used as a bargaining chip to establish national unity expressing equality. Amdt14.S1.8.7.3Out of Wedlock Births. Amdt14.S1.8. And this also makes more sense in context. Geography of the line. edit.