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- Title: Dred Scott and the Dangers of a Political Court
- Author : Ethan Greenberg
- Release Date : January 25, 2009
- Genre: Political Science,Books,Politics & Current Events,History,United States,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 2535 KB
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Dred Scott exemplies neither originalism nor aspirationalism gone wrong, as many modern critics now argue. Rather, the Dred Scott Court erred chiefly because the majority gave in to the still-relevant temptation to subordinate honest legal reasoning to the pursuit of what the majority regarded as a noble and crucial political agenda_in this case, to protect slavery and the political power of the slave-holding South, and thereby preserve the Union.