How did Taney know that slave ownership was a constitutional right? Such a right is nowhere to be found in the Constitution. He knew it because he was passionately convinced that it must be a constitutional right. -Robert H. Bork

 

How did Taney know that slave ownership was a constitutional right? Such a right is nowhere to be found in the Constitution. He knew it because he was passionately convinced that it must be a constitutional right.


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The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.

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[Law is] vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept.

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How did Taney know that slave ownership was a constitutional right? Such a right is nowhere to be found in the Constitution. He knew it because he was passionately convinced that it must be a constitutional right.

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[It is] a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.

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Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason.

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