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Dred Scott was the law of the land - backed by the Supreme Court - until the Republican north kicked the asses of the Democrat south in the Civil War: Chief Justice Roger B. Taney (D) . . . Scott had no right to sue in federal court because neither slaves nor free blacks were citizens of the United States [and] blacks had been "regarded as beings of an inferior order" with "no rights which the white man was bound to respect." Also: . . . any law excluding slaves from the territories was a violation of the Fifth Amendment prohibition against the seizure of property without due process of law. The Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional, he announced . . . The Dred Scott Supreme Court: 7 Democrat nominees, 2 Whig nominees, 0 Republican nominees. readthehorn/blogs/talking_heads/84116/op_ed_obamacare_is_the_law_of_the_land_get_over_it
Posted on: Tue, 01 Oct 2013 23:19:04 +0000

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