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To: colorado tanker
Guess I was looking for a source for...

Lincoln... ignored the ruling

Interesting but less important to me is...

By the time of [Taney's] death, both sides were disgusted with him.

(This one about Taney seems almost inevitable.)

BTW, I never use Wikipedia for a source. Since anyone can put anything in there, a primary source is still needed which may or may not be cited in the Wikipedia article.

50 posted on 03/12/2017 4:58:21 PM PDT by Jim W N
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To: Jim 0216; colorado tanker
Jim 0216: "I never use Wikipedia for a source.
Since anyone can put anything in there, a primary source is still needed which may or may not be cited..."

Wiki has gotten better over the years.
Yes, anyone can post anything, but also anyone can correct errors and post needed references, which over time they do.

I treat Wikipedia as "conventional wisdom", meaning: this is what most scholars of the subject accept.
Doesn't mean that's necessarily 100% correct, but it is a starting point, and puts the burden of disproving it on those who disagree.
So Wikipedia is huge repository of standard facts & interpretations, very useful especially after... ahem... a certain age in life, when not every historical datum can be immediately retrieved from the old memory banks... ;-)

51 posted on 03/13/2017 3:37:35 AM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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