How would the early republican party have felt about the dred scott decision?

Republicans protested the Dred Scott decision because it nullified their anti-slavery program. It had also reinforced the suspicion that the pro-slavery faction was plotting a conspiracy. Congress had an obligation to protect the property of slaveholders, making a federal slave code the next step in the militant effort to defend slavery.

b. the passage of the equal rights amendment  

explanation:

this mean that anything that someone else could do they could do