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Does the Supreme Court justice use a states right argument in dred Scott decision?

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in a 7–2 decision written by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, the court denied Scott's request. The decision was only the second time that the Supreme Court had ruled an Act of Congress to be unconstitutional.

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