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How did Buchanan influence the Dred Scott case?

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It allowed the court to rule on other laws about enslavement.

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This decision would affect not only Dred Scott and his family, but also the larger question of whether Congress could regulate the spread of slavery. ... While Buchanan personally opposed slavery on moral grounds, he believed that the Constitution supported slavery. The Court did not announce its decision in Dred Scott v.
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