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.
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.
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 !
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.
Buchanan was almost certainly a homosexual too....
I would have thought it would have been Nixon (Roe v. Wade decision).
Nice smear by the article author tying Dred Scott to Trump obliquely.
ML/NJ
The Dred Scott decision was not necessary to legitimize slavery.
The United States Constitution did that upon adoption. The U.S. Constitution enshrined slavery.
And it was the historical slave states that voted to make it so. Those slave states being: New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Delaware, and Maryland.
Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Georgia were also slave states. Never forget to cast 4/13ths responsibility in that direction.
They were right to do anything possible, everything possible, to prevent the looming disaster.
Both Buchanan and Taney were democrats
Buchanan also wanted to admit Kansas into the Union under the pro-slave Lecompton Constitution, but Congress didn’t go along - barely.
Roe v Wade was a worse decision, by orders of magnitude.