Dred Scott and his owner traveled with his owner to Wisconsin, where slavery was banned by the Missouri Compromise.
Supreme Court
You are not a citizen.
Taney declared that the Court had rejected Scott's argument that his stay in Wisconsin had made him a free man.
Why or why not?
vote 7:2
Why not??
(Northerners)The decision of the moral assassination of a race and cannot be obeyed!
Taney reasoned that banning slavery in a territory was the same as taking property from slaveholders who would like to bring their slaves into that territory, which was unconstitutional.
Congress had a constitutional responsibility to protect the property rights of slaveholders in a territory.
why
unconstitutional
The Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional. By a vote of seven to two, the Court had decided that Scott could not sue for his freedom in a federal court because he was not a citizen.
You are not a citizen
no African American, whether slave or free, was an American citizen—or could ever become one.
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