Origins of the Dred Scott Case: Jacksonian Jurisprudence and the Supreme Court, 1837-1857.(Book review)

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Origins of the Dred Scott Case: Jacksonian Jurisprudence and the Supreme Court, 1837-1857. By Austin Allen. (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2006. Pp. 274. Cloth, $59.95; Paper, $22.95.)

Austin Allen provides us with a new way to understand why United States Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney notoriously ruled in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) that black Americans were not citizens of the United States and that Congress could not ban slavery in the territories. He suggests that our dominant interpretations, which characterize (and condemn) Taney's opinion as a ...

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