Sentences with phrase «infamous dred»

Lincoln's Cooper Union address was given at a time when the infamous Dred Scott Supreme Court decision and John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry had significantly escalated tensions in the slavery debate, but Lincoln did not back down a bit on his insistence that new western states be admitted to the U.S. as free states.

In the infamous Dred Scott case, the US Supreme Court decided that African Americans were not of America, and they had no rights that «a white man was bound to respect.»

And occasionally, as with the infamous Dred Scott decision or with Roe v. Wade, a case is decided so wrongly that it is or eventually will be overruled.

As many others have done, the religious leaders point to the ominous parallels with the infamous Dred Scott decision about slavery in 1857.

By ruling that slaves had no rights that white men were required to respect, the infamous Dred Scott decision of 1857, said Lincoln, was responsible for «blowing out the moral lights.»

Not exact matches

Pretty strong language, but no stronger than the metaphor Daniel Mitchell of the Heritage Foundation used, in an op - ed article in The Washington Times, to «describe a bill designed to prevent corporations from rechartering abroad for tax purposes: Mitchell described this legislation as the «Dred Scott tax bill,» referring to the infamous 1857 Supreme Court ruling that required free states to return escaped slaves.

Defenders of the Supreme Court's infamous pro-slavery decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford, for example, advanced precisely this view of judicial power.

Listening to the podcast, I learned more about the Dred Scott case itself, but also learned about a gathering of Dred Scott's descendants and the descendants of Justice Taney, who wrote the infamous opinion.