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- United States slave who sued for liberty after living in a non-slave state; caused the Supreme Court to declare the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional (1795?-1858)
How To Use Dred Scott In A Sentence
- The decision was made in the case of Dred Scott, a negro slave.
- This decision of the Supreme Court on the plea in abatement that the plaintiff (a Negro, Dred Scott) was not a citizen in the sense of the word in Article iii, Sec. 2 of the Constitution, was based upon an erroneous idea respecting the location of the word _citizen_ in the instrument. History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens
- This is the central theme of Stephen Elkin’s magnificent RECONSTRUCTING THE COMMERCIAL REPUBLIC: CONSTITUTIONAL DESIGN AFTER MADISON (a must read for anyone interested in American constitutionalism) and the Dred Scott book to the right (a must read for anyone interested in helping me pay for two, soon to be three, daughters at private colleges). Balkinization
- Dred Scott, a slave, sought to be declared a free man on the basis that he had lived for a time in a free territory with his master. Dred Scott decision
- In contrast to their behavior before Dred Scott, both Catron and Campbell joined the majority; the latter even explicitly concurred in the result.
- Do you accept the finding of the Court in the case of Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) that the rights of all citizens of the United States include but are not limited to the following, as redacted from the decision of the Court: NRA, RNC target Sotomayor over gun rights
- This week on our series, we tell more about James Buchanan. And we discuss his influence in the Supreme Court ruling in the case of a slave from Missouri named Dred Scott.
- Because Dred Scott was property, he could never become a citizen of any state.
- Plainly enough now, the adoption of it would have spoiled the niche for the Dred Scott decision.
