It will be admitted on all hands, that with the exception of the powers surrendered by the Constitution of the United States, the people of the several States are absolutely and unconditionally sovereign within their respective territories. — Roger B. Taney Copy Share Image
Every intelligent person whose life has been passed in a slaveholding State, and who has carefully observed the character and capacity of the African race, will see that a general and sudden emancipation would be absolute ruin to the Negroes,… — Roger B. Taney Copy Share Image
Unquestionably, it is the duty of every master to watch over the religious and moral culture of his slaves, and to give them every… — Roger B. Taney Copy Share Image
It is an established principle of jurisprudence in all civilized nations that the sovereign cannot be sued in its own courts, or in any… — Roger B. Taney Copy Share Image
It will be admitted on all hands, that with the exception of the powers surrendered by the Constitution of the United States, the people… — Roger B. Taney Copy Share Image
A sovereignty is always presumed to act upon principles of justice, and if, from mistake or oversight, it does injury to a nation or… — Roger B. Taney Copy Share Image
Every intelligent person whose life has been passed in a slaveholding State, and who has carefully observed the character and capacity of the African… — Roger B. Taney Copy Share Image
What Dred Scott's master might lawfully do with Dred Scott, in the free state of Illinois, every other master may lawfully do with any… — Roger B. Taney Copy Share Image
In large commercial cities, the money power is, I fear irresistible. It is not by open corruption that it always, or even most generally,… — Roger B. Taney Copy Share Image
Every state has an undoubted right to determine the status, or domestic and social condition, of the persons domiciled within its territory except insofar… — Roger B. Taney Copy Share Image
In England, the sovereignty resides exclusively in the person or individual who is king. All Englishmen are his subjects. And the highest peer in… — Roger B. Taney Copy Share Image
Thank God that at least in one place, all men are equal: in the church of God. I do not consider it any degradation… — Roger B. Taney Copy Share Image
In the greater number of cases that have come under my observation, freedom has been a serious misfortune to the manumitted slave, and he… — Roger B. Taney Copy Share Image
