...Dred Scott was still a slave. Taney wrote that African-Americans were "beings of an inferior order ... so far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect." The Supreme Court ruling meant blacks were not citizens and, therefore, could...

...could not be citizens was that those who created the Constitution back in 1787-89 held black people as "beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit...inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect" [emphasis added].6 For many, the statement was proof positive of the strength...

...Constitution of the United States was framed and adopted. . . . They had more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and altogether...race, either in social or political relations; and 65 so far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the...

...did so; it was only 8 years after the notorious Dred Scott decision had labeled members of his race as "beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race" (Shapiro, 2005). In fact, Rock was granted admission to the Supreme Court bar as several justices in...

...his shameful opinion in the Dred Scott case, declaring that African Americans, slave or free, "were so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect." But even if resignations are not currently a serious problem, what about the...

...Constitution, three-fifths of a man and, to quote Chief Justice Taney in the Dred Scott decision of 1857, "so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect" (quoted in Glenn 2002, 36). Although black Americans were supposedly granted...