The Supreme Court decided to deprive every inhabitant of African descent slaves or not of the right of American citizenship, therefore rights and privileges of the citizenship would not apply to them, also determined that the congress could not ban slavery in federal territories, this decision was drafted by Chief Justice Roger Taney who argumented that one of the reasons of the decision was that "black people are not included, and were not intended to be included, under the word 'citizens' in the Constitution, and can therefore claim none of the rights and privileges which that instrument provides for and secures to citizens of the United States."