I suspect he chose the Dred Scott comparison precisely because of its overblown, grandiose nature. |
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Among these were the Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act, and the Dred Scott decision. |
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Largely less interested in constitutional questions and unwilling to politicize the judiciary, Nelson voted in conference to reject certiorari in the famous Dred Scott case. |
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But the country lawyer scored real blows, holding Douglas to the contradiction between popular sovereignty and the Dred Scott decision, which forbade antislavery settlers from prohibiting slavery in their territories. |
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