HIST 370 Lecture 6: HIST 370 2:7:17
10 Mar 2017
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Popular sovereignty in practice: border ruf ans, lecompton const. (technical legal but unrepresentative, free-state movement (majority, but technically extralegal)-representative of the people (outlawed slavery, but also free blacks. ) In the dred scott decision, supreme court ruled that dred scott was not a u. s. citizen. : popular sovereignty, congress has no right to legislate, only locals (when?) Mo compromise: drawing line between slave and free territory: no way to constitutionalize, purely political, but supported by previous precedent. Issues before court: negro citizenship, right to sue in federal ct, status of slaves in free states and territory, constitutionality of mo compromise. Tuesday, february 7, 2017: scott is still a slave, as slave & black, no citizen. Constitution regarded blacks as being an inferior order, so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect. no right to sue.
