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The Chief Justice ruled that when the Founding Fathers had declared that a man's property was sacred, 'property' would have included slaves. Therefore, he reasoned, the Constitution protected slavery.

He also added that a black man was not the sort of person who ought to be suing a white man anyway. Naturally this angered the Abolitionists.

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