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	Dred Scott v. Sandford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The decision for the court was written by Chief Justice Roger Taney.
		Curtis, in dissent, attacked that part of the Court's decision as obiter dicta, on the ground that once the Court determined that it did not have jurisdiction to hear Scott's case its only recourse was to dismiss the action, not to pass judgment on the merits of his claims.
		The reaction to the decision from opponents of slavery was fierce.
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	Dred Scott
		Dred Scott first went to trial to sue for his freedom in 1847.
		Scott's extended stay in Illinois, a free state, gave him the legal standing to make a claim for freedom, as did his extended stay in Wisconsin, where slavery was also prohibited.
		The decision greatly influenced the nomination of Abraham Lincoln to the Republican Party and his subsequent election, which in turn led to the South's secession from the Union.
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	Dred Scott Decision
		The two trials of Dred Scott in 1847 and 1850 were the beginning of a complicated series of events which concluded with a U.S. Supreme Court decision in 1857, and hastened the start of the Civil War.
		Dred Scott moved to St. Louis with the Blows in 1830, but was soon sold due to his master's financial problems.
		Dred Scott was not ready to give up in his fight for freedom for himself and his family, however.
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	The Dred Scott Decision
		Dred Scott (pictured left) was a slave belonging to a surgeon in the
		Reluctant to announce its decision during what promised to be a bitterly fought presidential election campaign, the Court ordered that the case be reargued at the beginning of its next Term, in December, 1856.
		Buchanan not only knew what the Court was about to decide in the Dred Scott case, it is fair to say that he had a hand in forging the Court majority that endorsed that decision.
	web.utk.edu /~scheb/dredscott.html (1591 words)

	WHEN IS A FREE MAN FREE? The Dred Scott Decision
		Sandford.) Scott claimed that as a citizen of the state of Missouri he was entitled to sue a citizen of another state in the federal courts.
		Taney declared that Dred Scott was not entitled to sue in the federal courts because he was not a citizen as that term was understood at the time the Constitution was adopted.
		After the American Civil War ended, some of the questions at issue in the Dred Scott case were settled by the 13th Amendment to the Constitution that freed the slaves and the 14th Amendment that made them citizens of the United States and of their state of residence.
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	Dred Scott Decision, Scott versus Emerson
		Dred Scott Decision was an important ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States on the issue of slavery.
		Dred Scott was the slave of a U.S. Army surgeon, John Emerson of Missouri, a state that permitted slavery.
		Scott based his suit on the argument that his former residence in a free state and a free territory -- Illinois and Wisconsin -- made him a free man. A state circuit court ruled in Scott's favor, but the Missouri Supreme Court later reversed the decision.
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	From Revolution to Reconstruction: Essays: A Hard Shove for a "Nation On the Brink": The Impact of Dred Scott: The ...
		When the predominately proslavery Supreme Court of the United States heard Scott's case and declared that not only was he still a slave but that the main law guaranteeing that slavery would not enter the new midwestern territories of the United States was unconstitutional, it sent America into convulsions.
		During his travels, Scott lived for a total of seven years in areas closed to slavery; Illinois was a free state and the Missouri Compromise of 1820 had closed the Wisconsin Territory to slavery.
		Scott's next step was to take his case out of the state judicial system and into the federal judicial system by bringing it to the U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Missouri.
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	War between the States - The Dred Scott Decision
		In 1846, Scott was helped by Abolitionist (anti-slavery) lawyers to sue for his freedom in court, claiming he should be free since he had lived on free soil for a long time.
		In March of 1857, Scott lost the decision as seven out of nine Justices on the Supreme Court declared no slave or descendant of a slave could be a U.S. citizen, or ever had been a U.S. citizen.
		Overall, the Dred Scott decision had the effect of widening the political and social gap between North and South and took the nation closer to the brink of Civil War.
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	AFRO-AMERICAN ALMANAC - African-American History Resource (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The historic Dred Scott case is most remembered for what it said about Negros and their place in the United States.
		Sanford rested on the premise that because of the Missouri Compromise, Dred Scott became a free man when he was brought into the state of Illinois, thus his "owner" had no right to assault him.
		The verdict was that Scott, or any slave, was not free by virtue of residence in a free state or territory, and since Scott was living in Missouri, his status must ultimately be determined in a court there.
	www.toptags.com /aama/docs/dscott.htm (2615 words)

	Dred Scott v. Sandford: Primary Documents of American History (Virtual Programs & Services, Library of Congress)
		In addition, this decision declared that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional and that Congress did not have the authority to prohibit slavery in the territories.
		The Dred Scott decision was overturned by the 13th and 14th Amendments to the Constitution.
		The Dred Scott opinion was reprinted by Horace Greeley and Co. in 1860, which included an abstract of the opinions of the other Supreme Court judges and a report from a Joint Committee of the Senate and Assembly of New York.
	www.loc.gov /rr/program/bib/ourdocs/DredScott.html (477 words)

	Afrocentricnews
		Dred Scott is born in Virginia as a slave of the Peter Blow family.
		The jury in a second trial decides that the Scotts deserve to be free, based on their years of residence in the non-slave territories of Wisconsin and Illinois.
		Dred Scott dies of tuberculosis and is buried in St. Louis.
	www.afrocentricnews.com /html/blue_red_and_dred_scott.html (1205 words)

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		We think its decisions on Constitutional questions, when fully settled, should control, not only the particular cases decided, but the general policy of the country, subject to be disturbed only by amendments of the Constitution as provided in that instrument itself.
		Dred Scott, his wife and two daughters were all involved in the suit.
		Of course, I state this case as an illustration only, not meaning to say or intimate that the master of Dred Scott and his family, or any more than a per centage of masters generally, are inclined to exercise this particular power which they hold over their female slaves.
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	Dred Scott Decision
		The Dred Scott Case was a landmark case of the 1850s in which the Supreme Court of the United States declared that African Americans were not U.S. citizens.
		The court's decision in the case was made in the context of the opening of western territories to slavery, the violence of the Border War, and the creation of a new political party dedicated to stopping the spread of slavery into the West.
		In March 1857 the court ruled in a 7 to 2 decision that Scott was still a slave and therefore not entitled to sue in court.
	www.americanrevwar.homestead.com /files/civwar/scott.html (1942 words)

	Dred Scott case
		The case before the court was that of Dred Scott v.
		Dred Scott, a slave who had lived in the free state of Illinois and the free territory of Wisconsin before moving back to the slave state of Missouri, had appealed to the Supreme Court in hopes of being granted his freedom.
		Although disappointed, Frederick Douglass, found a bright side to the decision and announced, "my hopes were never brighter than now." For Douglass, the decision would bring slavery to the attention of the nation and was a step toward slavery's ultimate destruction.
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	American History - The Dred Scott Decision
		According to Taney, the Court decided that Scott (and hence all negro slaves or their descendants) was not a citizen of the United States or the state of Missouri, and thus not entitled to sue in the federal courts.
		The decision also lowered the Court's prestige in the North and widened the sectional cleavage by moving Southerners from the position that slavery could not be kept out of the territories to the assertion that it must be protected in them.
		As Scott was a slave when taken into the State of Illinois by his owner, and was there held as such, and brought back into Missouri in that character,ehlhlY his status, as free or slave, depended on the laws of Missouri and not of Illinois.
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	The Dred Scott Decision
		Dred Scott, a slave, had been taken to Illinois, a free state, where he lived for two years.
		The first decision handed down declared Scott free under Missouri law, however, on appeal to the state supreme court, that decision was reversed.
		Scott’s attorneys took the case to the federal level and argued that his residence in a free territory made him a free man and a citizen of Missouri with a right to sue his alleged new owner.
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	Dred Scott Case
		Scott then ended up in the possession of John Sanford, a New York abolitionist, who assisted in taking his case to the federal courts since the matter now involved a dispute between the residents of different states.
		Dred Scott had no standing in the court system because fls, regardless of whether they were free or slave, were not and could not be citizens.
		The Republicans were outraged and saw the decision as a threat to their party, but in the end they actually profited because many moderates came to the support of the new party.
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	FindLaw for Legal Professionals - Case Law, Federal and State Resources, Forms, and Code
		Dred Scott was born a slave and had been taken by his master, an army surgeon, into the free portion of the Louisiana territory.
		Dred Scott's case holds a unique place in American constitutional history as an example of the Supreme Court trying to impose a judicial solution on a political problem.
		The Dred Scott Case From Washington University in St. Louis.
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	The American Civil War, DRED SCOTT DECISION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Dred Scott was a fl slave who belonged to an officer in the United States Army.
		After his master died, however, Scott sued, claiming that he was no longer a slave because he had lived on free soil.
		The decision further held that Congress had no power to prohibit slavery in the territories and that the Missouri Compromise therefore was unconstitutional.
	www.history-world.org /dred_scott_decision.htm (224 words)

	The Dred Scott Decision (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The decision was announced two days after President Buchanan's inauguration, and there was much suspicion of collusion between the President, Taney, and Southern interests.
		After the Supreme Court decision, Chaffee turned Dred and Harriet Scott and their two daughters over to his old friends, the Blows, who gave them their freedom in May 1857.
		Dred Scott did not live to see the war touched off at Fort Sumpter in 1861, but did live to gain his freedom.
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	Dred Scott Decision - KS-Cyclopedia - 1912
		Dred Scott Decision.—On March 6, 1857, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, of the United States supreme court, handed down an opinion which perhaps occasioned more comment from the press and more excitement among the people than any other decision ever rendered by that court.
		As soon as this decision was rendered, several prominent anti-slavery lawyers offered to carry the case through the United States supreme court, without charging Scott any fees for their services, and the result was the decision of Mr.
		With the reaction came a tide of free-state emigration, and there is no question that the Dred Scott case played a part in making Kansas a free state, as it also did in precipitating the Civil war.
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	The Dred Scott Decision (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Dred Scott was born a slave in Virginia around 1799.
		Sanford won the case and Scott then appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States, the highest court in the country.
		Sanford the Court states that Scott should remain a slave, that as a slave he is not a citizen of the U.S. and thus not eligible to bring suit in a federal court, and that as a slave he is personal property and thus has never been free.
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	Dred Scott Case — Infoplease.com
		After Emerson's death, Scott sued (1846) Emerson's widow for freedom for himself and his family (he had two children) on the ground that residence in a free state and then in a free territory had ended his bondage.
		Emerson's brother, was the legal administrator of her property and a resident of New York, the federal court accepted jurisdiction for the case on the basis of diversity of state citizenship.
		Ducking Dred Scott: a response to Alexander and Schauer.
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	Dred Scott Case Trials :: Jefferson National Expansion Memorial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The Dred Scott case was first brought to trial in 1847 in the first floor, west wing courtroom of St. Louis' Old Courthouse.
		He also ruled that as a slave, Dred Scott was not a citizen of the United States, and therefore had no right to bring suit in the federal courts on any matter.
		Their well-planned political campaign of 1860, coupled with divisive issues that split the Democratic Party, led to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States and South Carolina's secession from the Union.
	www.nps.gov /jeff/scott_case_trials.html (618 words)

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