Lincoln v Taney

Lincoln and Taney had two very different views on slavery and on the rights of slaves. They also had very different views on the expansion of slavery, and how it should be regulated. Taney felt that it shouldn’t be limited by an Act of Congress. And that the Act of Congress that Scott relies on, The Missouri Compromise of 1820, should be ruled unconstitutional. Lincoln felt that slavery should be put to an end all together.
Roger Taney was the Chief Justice for the Supreme Court during the ruling of the Dred Scott Case. Roger Taney declared that all blacks, slaves as well as free, could never become citizens of the United States. The case theat brought about this decision was the Dred Scott Case. Scott was a slave that lived in the free state of Illinois and hoped to be granted his freedom before he moved back to the slave state of Missouri. Scott took his slave owner to court in hopes of winning a lawsuit. The lawsuit started out in a Circuit Court and was appealed all the way...