CHAPTER 5 The Civil War and the Reconstruction Era - OCW
... Court of Missouri reversed the decision, declaring Scott and his family to be slaves, property of Eliza. By that time the estate of Dr. Emerson had been transferred to John F. A. Sanford, who was a citizen of New York State, and who thereby gained the ownership title to Scott and his family. Because ...
... Court of Missouri reversed the decision, declaring Scott and his family to be slaves, property of Eliza. By that time the estate of Dr. Emerson had been transferred to John F. A. Sanford, who was a citizen of New York State, and who thereby gained the ownership title to Scott and his family. Because ...
Remembering Dred Scott Article
... FREDERICK, Maryland (Achieve3000, July 1, 2011). In 1857, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney made what might have been the single most significant decision in the escalating debate over slavery. In the famous Dred Scott v. Sanford case, Taney ruled that freed slaves and their descen ...
... FREDERICK, Maryland (Achieve3000, July 1, 2011). In 1857, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney made what might have been the single most significant decision in the escalating debate over slavery. In the famous Dred Scott v. Sanford case, Taney ruled that freed slaves and their descen ...
Ex parte Merryman
Ex parte Merryman, 17 F. Cas. 144 (C.C.D. Md. 1861) (No. 9487), is a well-known and controversial U.S. federal court case which arose out of the American Civil War. It was a test of the authority of the President to suspend ""the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus"" under the Constitution's Suspension Clause, when Congress was in recess and therefore unavailable to do so itself. U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney, sitting as a federal circuit court judge, ruled that the authority to suspend habeas corpus lay exclusively with Congress. Saying that Taney's orders were unconstitutional, President Abraham Lincoln defied them, as did the Army under Lincoln's orders, and John Merryman remained inaccessible to the judiciary while Congress remained in recess.