Posted on 10/20/2018 7:40:49 PM PDT by iowamark
Dred Scott decision text at:
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2933.html
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2933t.html
Anytime someone wants to argue precedent and stare decisis, drop Dred Scott on them.
Great article. Thanks for posting.
Nowadays, I’m always skeptical of what I read, but this piece rings true. It certainly makes me want to know more about the times, what happened and why. The “why” is always the part of which to be skeptical.
As Lincoln said in 1858: "A house divided against itself, cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become lawful in all the States, old as well as new — North as well as South. "
And Plessy v. Ferguson (”separate but equal = OK!!)
Some things never change...
“He foolishly believed the Supreme Court could do what Congress and the presidency had not -- provide a final solution to the slavery abortion question.”
It always baffled me as to how my hometown could have produced two men who went to Washington, DC, and had completely different worldviews. Buchanan and Congressman Thadeus Stevens. The former a Democrat and the latter a Republican. But, who both called Lancaster “home”. It would be very interesting to visit the era and locale where both men lived in such close proximity.
Yes, Roe v. Wade is often compared to the Dred Scott decision.
Clarification please: what were “ free state men.”?
Buchanan was Obama class bad.
Men from non-slavery states.
Thanks SOB! Gotta love your handle...
Also makes me wonder if the same family of deep staters were working back then, too. Probably easier to find out now, eh? Nothing new under the sun, especially when it comes to evil.
This article is useless without also mentioning the Vice President.
John C Breckinridge !
Who split the democrat party in two?
John C Breckinridge !
Who led the rump democrat part on the election?
John C Breckinridge !
Who came in second in the electoral college?
John C Breckinridge !
Who’s States left the Union rather than suffer a split government with the Republicans (dems controlled the Senate and the Courte)?
John C Breckinridge !
Who was removed from the Senate (appointed by a State after losing) for treason?
John C Breckinridge !
Who became a (bad) Confederatw general?
John C Breckinridge !
Who bungled the Confederate attack in Baton Rouge?
John C Breckinridge !
Yep.
It IS the Stare Decisis killer all by itself.
I don't remember ever learning about him. So, I was curious. Found resources at Dickinson's site but HAVE to share this...
hope you don't mind the size and of course I was thinking of GW and Obama, but now knowing about the deep state, don't know if any of them were truly good.
Similarly, it is absolute nonsense to believe that that same Constitution contains within it the authority of the national government to mandate that the states permit the killing of unborn babies.
The original intent of the Constitution was that slaves were property. The original intent of the Constitution was that the federal government had no authority to mandate nation-wide protection for abortion.
It's really not all that complicated. It only seems so because so many people deny what I am claiming above and wish the Supreme Court to make stuff up.
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