HIST 396 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Comity, Missouri Compromise, Roger B. Taney
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Compromise: lost and then won, and then lost again, 1. Did prolonged residence in a free state or territory make scott free: least controversial question, 2. As a slave and a black, was scott a citizen with the right to sue in federal courts: 3. Was the missouri compromise, which had prohibited slavery in the portion of. Southern relatives: should write a decision that denied black citizenship and declared unconstitutional the missouri compromise"s exclusion of slavery from northern territories, 7-2 majority decision, 1. Dred scott was still a slave: 2. His sojourn in illinois did not free him, for under interstate comity, His sojourn in wisconsin territory did not free him, because congress had no power to exclude slavery from a territory, and the exclusion clause of the. Missouri compromise was therefore unconstitutional: not unanimous decision lost some republicans respect, antislavery factions insisted that the dred scott ruling was not valid law, it did not settle the slavery question.
