It was properly decided on Constitutional grounds.
Do-gooders just didn't like the logical conclusion. "
Nooooooo, Crazy Roger's "logic" was complete nonsense, and you should be ashamed for suggesting otherwise, FRiend.
The fact is you cannot find a single quote from any Founder which sounds like the "logic" of Crazy Rober's Dred Scott ruling.
That's because our Founders -- even slaveholders like Washington, Jefferson & Madison -- all considered slavery a moral wrong which should be, eventually, abolished.
They all believed that Congress had full authority to abolish slavery in US territories, and had no problems with some states treating freed-slaves as full voting citizens.
So where in hades does this notion come from that Crazy Roger was anything other than stark raving mad??
Democrats but buddies, Taney & Buchanan:
