A Supreme Court case in which the decision ruled that AMericans of African descent, whether free or slave, were not AMerican citizens and could not sue in federal court. The Court aksi ruled that COngress lacked power to ban slavery in the U.S. territories, The United States Supreme Court decision in this case affirmed the right of slave owners to take their slaves into the Western territories, there by negating the doctrine of popular sovereignty and severely undermining the platform of the then newly created Republican Party

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