Roger B. Taney

state or one in which slavery is illegal. By virtue of not being allowed to purchase land undeterred by the fact that under state legislation he was a free man, Dred Scott attempted to sue in a federal court. The chief justice in this case was Chief Justice Roger B Taney, a Federalist white man. He was also born and raised in a slaveholding household, obviously one that was against the freedom of negroes in America. His bipartisan opinion on Dred Scott ensued Taney in ignoring crucial evidence brought before the court…

On March 1857 a case was opened in the U.S. Supreme Court about a man who decided to fight for his freedom. The Dred Scott Decision was named after the courageous man, Dred Scott, who valiantly defied the order of slavery to obtain what every white man had, freedom. Dred decided to fight for his freedom when his master passed away while being at the state of Illinois that was considered a free state for all. Even though the Supreme Court disagreed with him, and got involved in his case to prove…

Judicial restraint; what is it, or better yet, who is it? Judicial restraint is a judicial theory in which the judge does not administer his or her own political preferences onto the ruling of any certain case. One key characteristic of a judge who adheres to this judicial theory is the hesitancy to strike down laws, because judicial restrainers do not see themselves as being able to make law from the bench. Other major corresponding characteristics and ideologies judicial restrainers frequently…

Dred Scott was slave who sued for his liberty in the Missouri courts, arguing that four years on free soil had made him free. He was once owned by army surgeon John Emerson. Dred Scott’s attorney argued that between 1831 and 1833, John Emerson had taken Scott with him during various military postings to areas where the Missouri Compromise banned slavery, making Dred Scott a free man. When nearly after six years in the Missouri courts, the state Supreme Court rejected this argument in 1852, Dred…

freedom. Nevertheless, this was not the case; Scott was not asking for freedom because human beings should not own each other, but rather, because he had lived in a free state in which it was illegal for him to be enslaved. What may seem obvious today was not recognized in 1857 by nine men in black robes. As a result of this myopia, they handed down a 7-2 decision, informing Dred Scott that because of skin color he was not a citizen of Missouri or any state for that matter (VanderVelde 263).…

Throughout the mid-18th century, the Dred Scott Supreme Court decision became a key contributing factor in the separation between the Union and Confederacy going into the American Civil War. With the conflict of proslavery and antislavery groups fighting for new states, this choice became a debated topic within the detached United States for the effect it had in the slavery legal and economic system. Riots transpired and differences between political leaders and Court justices arose as the…

He is quick to discredit the notion that both Taney and Douglas bring up that the phrasing of the Declaration, although broad enough to include the “whole human family”, does not include blacks because at the time of the drafting of the document blacks were not seen equal to whites in any facet. Per Lincoln, the true intention was that men were not meant to be equal in all respects, but rather equal in the regard that everyone possess inalienable rights not to be stripped away by the government.…

granted to all men in those documents most certainly deem slavery to be in direct opposition to the framers intentions. Slavery was an issue that was met with much debate and animosity from both sides of the argument. Many important political figures offered their interpretation of the founding documents as it relates to slavery. Thomas Jefferson argued for the moral equality of whites and blacks, but not necessarily political or social equality. Benjamin Rush saw the slavery as a blatant…

profit off of an animated series that depicts American reality. But does Seth MacFarlane achieve this in the episode that first aired on Fox’s Animation Domination? The first American Dad episode called, “Pilot” which earned a 7.5 rating in Adults 18-49 and a total of 15.1 million viewers. The episode opens with a white middle class family together at breakfast with the children arguing about the significance of a degree from a community college and makes an incest remark. Quickly into the…

money alone (Ripley). It would seem logical, due to this money being donated and raised to support the ones left behind, to split it evenly within those that will receive it. Yet it was still divided by occupation and those that had a higher up position, received the most. It seems almost uncomprehend able as well, that the families would them sue for more money to keep up with their life style, given that their deceased loved one was so much more higher up socially. (Ripley) No person’s…