It seems that the private opinions of the extremely aged Chief Justice, Roger Taney, had a lot to do with it - perhaps more than they should have done.
Also the local judges had been able to exploit Scott's debatable status, as a slave who had been brought back from free soil into slave country, and had missed his chance to apply for his freedom in the normal way.
Answer
Case Citation:
Dred Scott v. Sandford*, 60 US 393 (1857)
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The Constitution - interpreted literally, in the manner in which it had originally been written, when African-Americans were not regarded as full citizens.
The Supreme Courts job is to interpret and uphold the laws of today based on their knowledge of the constitution. They would not be able to decide anything directly violating the constitution, but they do have their own interpretation of what it says. Knowing this, it is possibly that the amendments could overturn their decision, although it is extremely unlikely that it would.
enumerated
Court decisions can be overturned by higher courts, with the highest being the Supreme Court. Once the Supreme Court has issued a ruling, it can only be overturned by another Supreme Court ruling if the court agrees to hear that case or a similar case again. It is also possible for Congress to pass a law or constitutional amendment (with the help of the states, which must ratify any amendment), which can effectively overturn a Supreme Court decision by altering the law on which the decision was based.
procedural due process
Precedent reflects past cases that have been decided on, usually by the Federal or State Supreme Courts, whose decisions reflect some similarity to the defenses case. Based on the decision made the defense attorney can argue that the same decision applies to his/her case.
The Dred Scott decision or Dred Scott v. Sandford, took place in 1857. His case was based on the fact that he and his wife Harriet Scott were slaves, but had lived in states and territories where slavery was illegal, including Illinois and Minnesota (which was then part of the Wisconsin Territory). Dred Scott lost the case when The United States Supreme Court ruled seven to two, on the grounds that he, nor any person of African ancestry, could claim citizenship in the United States, and that therefore Scott could not bring suit in federal court under diversity of citizenship rules.
If the reference is to the Supreme Court being influenced by public opinion then technically the answer is no because the Supreme Court passes judgment based on law. If the reference is to lower courts, then the answer is yes because jury by trial is based upon public opinion.
It was a legal dispute about the status of a slave who had lived on free soil for a time and then returned to slave country. The courts had never dealt with this question before, and that is how it reached the Supreme Court, where the Chief Justice made his controversial statements about slavery and blacks in general.
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The teaching of creationism in public schools has stood trial a number of times. At least two of such cases came before the US Supreme Court: Epperson v. Arkansas, 1968; Edwards v. Aguillard, 1987. In both instances, the US Supreme Court ruled against the statutes promoted by the creationist groupings concerned. In a number of other cases before district courts and federal courts, rulings were also against any statute that would require a religiously based modification to the biology curriculum, stating that such statutes are unconstitutional as they violate the establishment clause of the First Amendment of the US Constitution.
Not all federal courts are trial courts. Some are appeal courts. Appeal courts only review cases already heard by trial courts. Some lower courts are specialized and only have trials on specific issues. The Supreme Court has only heard appeals since 1924. The Supreme Court reserves the right to hold a trial. No one has suggested any reason why the Supreme Court would sit as a court of original jurisdiction. Still, it could.
It simply declared that slavery was legal in every state of the Union, because of how the Chief Justice interpreted the Constitution.