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US
/ˈteɪni/
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NOUN
- United States jurist who served as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court; remembered for his ruling that slaves and their descendants have no rights as citizens (1777-1864)
How To Use Taney In A Sentence
- Chief Justice Roger Taney read the decision in the small courtroom in the Capitol building.
- Of these, the farthest to the East is the Baltimore Pike, which passes by the East entrance to the Cemetery; the farthest to the West is the Emmetsburg road, which is wholly outside of our line of battle, but near the Cemetery, is within a hundred yards of it; the Taneytown road is between these, running nearly due North and South, by the Eastern base of Round Top, by the Western side of the Cemetery, and uniting with the Emmetsburg road between the Cemetery and the town. Haskell's Account of the Battle of Gettysburg. Paras. 26-50
- Taney's citizenship ruling continued a practice to which a majority of the Court had been committed since slavery cases began making regular appearances on the docket in the early 1840s.
- Missouri laws did not give freedom to slaves who lived temporarily in free territory. Therefore, said Taney, Scott was still a slave.
