Question

What does Sumner mean in the underlined text? Check all that apply.

The decision was not supported by the majority of Americans.


The decision had no basis in historical fact.


The decision was terrible and unfair.

I speak what cannot be denied when I declare that the opinion of the Chief Justice in the case of Dred Scott was more thoroughly abominable than anything of the kind in the history of courts. Judicial baseness reached its lowest point on that occasion. You have not forgotten that terrible decision where a most unrighteous judgment was sustained by a falsification of history.


–Charles Sumner, 1865

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Answer 2

sumner means that the decision was terrible and unfair.

This is summarized by this quote below:

"....You have not forgotten that terrible decision where a most unrighteous judgment was sustained by a falsification of history."

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