Sentences with phrase «slave dred»

«In an affront to every sensible Monroe County voter, Louise compared her campaign to the plight of former slave Dred Scott and the millions of African - Americans who suffered under the scourge of slavery,» said Noah Lebowitz.

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Were a person to have violated a court order directing the return of a runaway slave when Dred Scott was the law, would a genuinely held belief that a slave was a human person and not an article of property be a matter the Court could not consider in deciding whether that person was guilty of a criminal contempt charge?

The notorious Dred Scott decision (1837) asserted that because slaves were their masters» property Congress could not ban slavery anywhere in the United States — a holding that ignored the Framers» compromise of tolerating slavery temporarily but allowing eventual measures against it.

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.

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.»

I think the Supreme Court got it wrong in 1857 in Dred Scott v. Sandford, when it held that an African - American whose ancestors had been brought to the U.S. as slaves could not be a citizen and thus had no legal standing.

The conference finally adopted several arguably peripheral constitutional amendments such as forbidding acquisition of new U.S. territory without approval by a majority of both slave - state and free - state senators, guaranteeing federal compensation for fugitive slaves when failure to return them was due to anti-slavery violence or intimidation, and restoring and perpetuating the Missouri Compromise line that once satisfied both regions but had been struck down by the Dred Scott decision.

Sandford (whose name was actually Sanford), acting on behalf of his sister who was Dred Scott's owner, injected into the litigation the question whether any black person, free or slave, could be a citizen of the United States, and he directly challenged the constitutionality of the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which forbade slavery in the Louisiana Territory north of latitude 36 ° 30».

None of what Lincoln achieved — the eventual abolition of slavery, the preservation of the Union — would have happened had Lincoln not thought himself constitutionally authorizedto resist the Supreme Court's decision in Dred Scott; constitutionally obligated, by his oath, to resist secession; and constitutionally empowered, as commander in chief, to fight the enemy with the full powers at his disposal, which included military force, blockade, suspension of habeas corpus, arrest and detention, seizure of enemy property, and emancipation of Southern slaves.

In 1857, the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was strengthened by a Supreme Court ruling that Dred Scot, a slave bought in the South and taken to the North were still a slave, who had to be returned to his maSlave Act of 1850 was strengthened by a Supreme Court ruling that Dred Scot, a slave bought in the South and taken to the North were still a slave, who had to be returned to his maslave bought in the South and taken to the North were still a slave, who had to be returned to his maslave, who had to be returned to his master.

He actively lobbied the Supreme Ct. to decide the Dred Scott v. Sandford suit that would maintain the status of slaves; and even allow slavery in new territories.

The city of Baltimore took down monuments to Lee, Jackson and pre-Civil War Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney, who wrote the majority decision in the Dred Scott Case, ruling that the descendants of slaves were not US citizens.

They also cite things like the three - fifths compromise, references to the slave trade - and the Dred Scott decision - to justify their hostility to our Constitutional Freedoms.

This is both because of the virtues of localism and civil society and because the federal government is by no means always on the side of the angels when it comes to fairness — remember the Fugitive Slave Act, Dred Scott, Plessy, the WWII - era internment of Americans of Japanese descent, race - based redlining.

When they said «no, Dred Scott the slave,» I compounded the problem by covering, «ohhh, the other Dred Scott.»

Lincoln discussed the Dred Scott decision of 1857, which ruled that African slaves and their descendants were not protected by the constitution and could never be citizens by saying,