Roger Taney ruled that slaves were property in the Dred Scott V Sanford case. The constitution did not explicitly state a distinction between slaves and other types of property. Taney declared the Missouri Compromise as unconstitutional because it denied slave owners their property. Though Dred Scott stayed in a free state, Illinois, he filed the lawsuit in a slave state, Missouri. As property, a slave, Scott was not allowed to sue; therefore the case was dismissed.
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