Ummarizing an What is the best summary of Taney's opinion?
Yet the men who framed this declaration were great men
-high in literary acquirements-high in their sense of
honor, and incapable of asserting principles inconsistent
with those on which they were acting. They perfectly
understood the meaning of the language they used, and
how it would be understood by others, and they knew
that it would not in any part of the civilized world be
supposed to embrace the negro race, which, by common
consent, had been excluded from civilized Governments
and the family of nations, and doomed to slavery.
-Dred Scott v. Sandford,
Supreme Court of the United States
O The framers who crafted the Constitution were the
most honorable men for the job.
O The men who wrote the Constitution understood
that enslaved persons would not be citizens.
The men who wrote the Constitution had a great
understanding of the language they used.
O The framers who crafted the Constitution all
believed that African Americans should be
enslaved
Done