GDG- Did the Civil War really start 150 years ago today?

[Robert Lawrence]

" 1857-Chief Justice Taney's ruling in Dred Scott marks the Supreme Court's
first use of the modern liberal judicial activist's favorite
tool-"substantive due process"-to invalidate a statute.  In striking down
the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which prohibited slavery in the northern
portion of the Louisiana Territories, Taney nakedly asserts:  "[A]n act of
Congress which deprives a citizen of the United States of his liberty and
property, merely because he came himself or brought his property into a
particular Territory of the United States, and who had committed no offense
against the laws, could hardly be dignified with the name of due process of
law."   "

Please ignore the swipes at the current judiciary. It is my feeling that
after Dredd Scott was was inevititable

Robert W Lawrence CPA
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