LAD #14: Dred Scott Decision

The earlier meetings in 1857 didn’t consider the issues of black citizenship and Missouri Compromise. Buchanan was supportive of the decision of the Dred Scot Case. Every territory was to have popular sovereignty and decide the slavery issue themselves. Chief Justice Thaney shared his feelings of the issue of free blacks. The privilege of suing in a court of the United States in the cases specified by the Constitution. His opinion stated that blacks no matter their status of free or not were not citizens of the United States. With this decision Dred Scott did not hold the right to sue the federal court. The Missouri Compromise therefore was declared unconstitutional because slaveholding citizens have a right to their property, which referred to the slaves.