If one actually reads the decision and understands the Constitution of the United States at the time of the decision, it is a legally solid decision. Remember, it was not until 1865 did the Congress pass the 13th Amendment.
Which raises the question: Was the 13th Amendment ever really ratified?
Good point you made about the decision’s validity, under the law then existing. Texas now needs to pass an ABORTION BAN! We will just tell the Libtard “Judges” we are a Sanctuary State for the UNBORN!
There are a lot of “legally solid” immoral issues in today’s World. However, just as now, if the issue immoral, even if it is Legal, it is wrongly decided.
Well, it’s pretty obvious that you’ve never read the Cooper Union Address, made by the only real constitutional attorney to ever run for President from Illinois.
What part of the Constitution said blacks were not and could never be citizens? Or that Congress did not have the power to restrict slavery in the territories?
Sound reasoning perhaps, but might it have called into question why slaves were accounted in the Constitution as three fifths the electoral “value” in each census towards Congressional representation? How can chattel, much less non-citizens, possibly be counted for the purpose at all? The decision certainly sped up the inevitable split since it decided the answer to Lincoln’s contention that the country would eventually have to be wholly free or wholly slave holding in favor of the latter.
Well, no. It depends on how long you can live in another state without becoming a resident or citizen of that state.