In March 1857, the Supreme Court issued a 7–2 decision against Scott. federal court, which ruled against him by deciding that it had to apply Missouri law to the case. Scott sued first in Missouri state court, which ruled that he was still a slave under its law. territory, he had automatically been freed and was legally no longer a slave. When his owners later brought him back to Missouri, Scott sued in court for his freedom and claimed that because he had been taken into " free" U.S.
The decision was made in the case of Dred Scott, an enslaved black man whose owners had taken him from Missouri, a slave-holding state, into Illinois and the Wisconsin Territory, where slavery was illegal. Supreme Court's worst decision." Historian David Thomas Konig said that it was "unquestionably, our court's worst decision ever." Rodriguez said that it is "universally condemned as the U.S. Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes called it the Court's "greatest self-inflicted wound". Legal scholar Bernard Schwartz said that it "stands first in any list of the worst Supreme Court decisions". The Supreme Court's decision has been widely denounced, both for how overtly racist the decision was and for its crucial role in the start of the American Civil War four years later. (19 How.) 393 (1857), was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court in which the Court held that the United States Constitution was not meant to include American citizenship for people of African descent, regardless of whether they were enslaved or free, and so the rights and privileges that the Constitution confers upon American citizens could not apply to them. Taney, joined by Wayne, Catron, Daniel, Nelson, Grier, Campbell The Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment prohibits the federal government from freeing slaves brought into federal territories.Ĭhief Justice Roger B.The Missouri Compromise is unconstitutional. As such, Congress cannot ban slavery in the territories. The Property Clause is applicable only to lands possessed at the time of the Constitution's ratification (1787).Plaintiff is without standing to file a suit. Persons of African descent cannot be and were never intended to be citizens under the U.S.
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