John C. Calhoun
At first, the court said slavery was up to the states. Later, the court held that the federal government could make slavery illegal.
He believed free blacks could immigrate to a territory on the west coast of Africa.
Hoover believed that the federal government could not give direct aid to individuals. He believed in free market capitalism and did not think the constitution gave the federal government the power to set prices.
The Dred Scott decision, delivered by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1857, ruled that popular sovereignty—the idea that the settlers of a territory could decide whether to allow slavery—was unconstitutional. The Court argued that the federal government had no authority to regulate slavery in the territories, as it violated the property rights of slave owners under the Fifth Amendment. Consequently, the decision effectively invalidated the principle of popular sovereignty by asserting that Congress could not exclude slavery from the territories, thereby reinforcing the legal status of slavery in the United States.
State governments could not do the job well on their own.
John C. Calhoun
Henry David Thoreau detested slavery and felt a government that allowed it was immoral. He refused to pay his taxes because he could not accept a government which continued to support slavery. He believed this to be the disgrace.
they could guarantee there would be no more slavery by the new law the government made:)
Stephen Douglas.
john brown
The Dred Scott v. Sandford decision in 1857 led to the ruling that African Americans could not be U.S. citizens and that the federal government could not regulate slavery in the territories. This decision further divided the nation on the issue of slavery, contributing to the tensions that eventually led to the Civil War.
At first, the court said slavery was up to the states. Later, the court held that the federal government could make slavery illegal.
Slavery Has Been Around For A Long Time. It Is Believed That It Started At The Beginning Of The Human Race. People Believed That They Could Force others to Do Anything they Desired. Hope This helps :)
Lincoln did not like slavery. He could see the injustice of keeping people in involuntary servitude , buying and selling them like cattle. However, he also believed in constitutional law and legal precedent which protected the institution of slavery and was not an abolitionist who believed that slavery should abolished by violent action. He hoped to find a peaceful to end slavery, perhaps by having the government buy the slaves and send to some foreign country as free men.
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The Dred Scott decision declared that enslaved people were not citizens and could not sue in federal court, effectively denying them any legal rights. This decision also stated that Congress could not prohibit slavery in the territories, further solidifying the institution of slavery in the United States. This was a blow to those who opposed the extension of slavery because it limited the federal government's ability to regulate or restrict slavery's spread to new territories.
True. There were some northerners who believed that if slavery remained in the South and did not spread to the new territories, it could eventually die out on its own. This viewpoint was known as "free soil" or "free labor" and was held by some abolitionists and moderate opponents of slavery.