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"And upon a full and careful consideration of the subject... Dred Scott was not a citizen of Missouri within the meaning of the Constitution of the United States and not entitled as such to sue in its courts....""Upon these considerations it is the opinion of the Court that the act of Congress which prohibited a citizen from holding and owning property of this kind in the territory of the United States north of the line therein mentioned is not warranted by the Constitution and is therefore void..."
"That it is now firmly settled by the decisions of the highest court in the state that Scott and his family, upon their return, were not free, but were, by the laws of Missouri, the property of the defendant; and that the Circuit Court of the United States has no jurisdiction when by the laws of the state, the plaintiff was a slave and not a citizen"
- Roger B. Taney, Dred Scott V. Sandford, 1857
Chief Justice Taney's basic ruling in the Dred Scott case was based on which of the following principles?
A. Since slaves did not pay taxes, they had no legal rights.
B. Since Scott had returned to a slave state, he was still a slave.
C. Since Congress did not define slavery, it could not regulate it
D. Since slaves were property, they could not sue
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