This Day in Republican History  3/06/06
 March 6, 1857
   Republican Supreme Court Justice John McLean issues strenuous dissent from        decision by 7 Democrats in infamous Dred Scott case that African-Americans        had no rights “which any white man was bound to respect” 
You can read more about Dred Scott here.
 
 
 
          
      
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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