Republicans Proclaimed That They Were Not Bound by the Dred

question 69

Multiple Choice

Republicans proclaimed that they were not bound by the Dred Scott ruling because

• A) Scott lacked standing to sue, as the Court determined, making the rest of the ruling null and void.
• B) Chief Justice Roger B. Taney was no longer of sound mind.
• C) the majority of the Supreme Court justices were southerners.
• D) the Missouri Compromise had already been invalidated by the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
• E) popular sovereignty had proven its worth in Kansas.

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