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...opinion may well be taken at this distance of time as justifying the decision of the court: No one, we presume, supposes that any change in public opinion...their favor than they were intended to bear when the instrument was framed and adopted. Such an argument would be altogether inadmissible in any tribunal...

...another State. . . . No one, we presume, supposes that any change in public opinion or feeling, in regard to this unfortunate race, in the civilized nations...their favor than they were intended to bear when the instrument was framed and adopted. Such an argument would be altogether inadmissible in any tribunal...

...protect it; no other power in relation to this race is to be found in the Constitution. . . . No one, we presume, supposes that any change in public opinion...Constitution a more liberal construction in their favor lhan they were intended to bear when the instrument was framed and adopted. ... It is not only the...

...according to its true intent and meaning when it was adopted." And before concluding, he said: "No one, we presume, supposes that any change in public opinion...unfortunate race, in the civilized nations of Europe or of this country, should induce the court to give to the words of the constitution a more liberal construction...

...require. The States evidently intended to reserve this power exclusively to themselves. No one, we presume, supposes that any change in public opinion...their favor than they were intended to bear when the instrument was framed and adopted. Such an argument would be altogether inadmissible in any tribunal...

...resolve to plug every loophole in the southern defense. "No one, we presume, supposes," Taney continued, "that any change in public opinion or feeling, in relation to this unfortunate race . . . should induce the court to give to the words of the Constitution a more liberal construction...

...federal courts, and were entitled to none of the protections of the federal constitution. No one, we presume, supposes that any change in public opinion or feeling, in relation to this unfortunate race . . . should induce the court to give to the words of the Constitution a more liberal construction...

...97-194; on its impact on the Reconstruction Amendments, see ibid., 108-48. 41. Taney argued: "No one, we presume, supposes that any change in public opinion...their favor than they were intended to bear when the instrument was framed and adopted." Dred Scott v. Sanford, 60 US (19 How.) 393, 426 (1857). In fact,...

...Construction Did the Constitution and the nation's founding legal documents support racism? ...No one, we presume, supposes that any change in public opinion...their favor than they were intended to bear when the instrument was framed and adopted. Such an argument would be altogether inadmissible in any tribunal...