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Hace 3 días · In support of his argument, he cited Chief Justice Roger B. Taney's opinion in the United States Supreme Court case Strader v. Graham, which argued that the status of a slave returning from a free state must be determined by the slave state itself.
Hace 13 horas · Such spinelessness might even snatch from Roger B. Taney, the author of the majority opinion in Dred Scott, the title of “worst chief justice ever. ...
Hace 2 días · Despite McLane's attempts to procure a modified Bank charter, Attorney General Roger B. Taney, the only member of Jackson's cabinet at the time who was vehemently anti-B.U.S., predicted that ultimately Jackson would never relinquish his desire to destroy the central bank.
Hace 5 días · I n the Slaughter-House Cases, the U.S. Supreme Court considered the meaning of the recently enacted Fourteenth Amendment, especially the provision declaring: “No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States.”The question before the Court in this case concerned the legitimacy of a Louisiana law granting a monopoly ...
Hace 4 días · Roger Taney was the fifth chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court who's remembered mostly for Missouri's Dred Scott decision in 1857 that upheld U.S. slavery and declared that enslaved people...
Hace 5 días · The people of the state of South Carolina, in Convention assembled, on the 26th day of April, a.d. 1852, declared that the frequent violations of the Constitution of the United States by the federal government, and its encroachments upon the reserved rights of the states, fully justified this state in then withdrawing from the federal Union; but in deference to the opinions and wishes of the ...
Hace 5 días · The Slaughterhouse Cases became the controlling case for defining national citizenship under the 14 th amendment to the United States Constitution, though later courts would provide a broader definition under different constitutional provisions. —Scott Yenor. Source: The Slaughterhouse Cases, 83 U.S. 36 (1872).
