They perfectly understood the meaning of the language they used, and how it would be understood by others; and they knew that it would not in any part of the civilized world be supposed to embrace the negro race, which, by common consent, had been excluded from civilized Governments and the family of nations, and doomed to slavery.


–Dred Scott v. Sandford,

Supreme Court of the United States


What type of fallacy or faulty reasoning is used in this passage?


ad populum

begging the claim

genetic fallacy

hasty generalization