Dred Scott Decision
In this case, a judge had came up with a majority vote yet his decision was not actually the majority, because of this a new judge, Taney, was decided to come up with many different outcomes for the case and the jury would decide along with Taney. On the day of the reading of the answer, Taney stated that as having Negros ancestors come into this country and sold as slaves, the generations to follow even those whom are free, cannot be considered a citizen of the United States, therefore they do not have the rights of a citizen. Without these rights Scott, being a negro, could not sue in federal court. This then brought his attention to the Missouri Compromise and if this was constitutional. He declared that in every part of the United States, life, liberty, and property, is given to citizens so to have declared territory unable to contain slaves, this cannot be constitutional since if someone decides to pick up and move to this new territory, these slaves are still their property so in the constitution they should be allowed to have their slaves there, therefore declaring the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional. Then last he went back to this particular case and declared that since Scott was from Missouri, he was still a slave even though he had been living in the free state of Illinois. So the ruling in favor of Sanford was kept.
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