Word: dred
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...classrooms and club meetings. On a train bound for Manhattan, Veteran Washington Attorney John Lord O'Brian opened his briefcase, took out the notes he had dictated for his Law Day speech. In St. Louis, a Negro law student named John Alexander Madison and a Negro policeman named Dred Scott Madison studied their parts for the Law Day re-enactment of the historic trial of their great-grandfather, Dred Scott.* In Seattle, Attorney Ford Elvidge was "digging into books I haven't cracked in 40 years," looking up English legal history for his Law Day speech. In Charleston...
...sounding the tocsin of the freedom, of the press and invoking the shade of Woodrow Wilson. The Trib's young (32) Editor-Publisher Ogden R. ("Brownie") Reid vowed that the paper would carry the case to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary. Said Columnist Torre: "I feel like Dred Scott today...
Because of its size and power, the service has inevitably stirred up controversy. For one thing, some educators deplored the passing of the old essay question ("Discuss the consequences of the Dred Scott decision") in favor of the objective type ("The chief justice in the Dred Scott Case was: 1. John C. Calhoun. 2. Roger B. Taney. 3. William Lloyd Garrison, 4. Salmon P. Chase, 5. Stephen A. Douglas"). The new tests, said the critics, might be able to determine a student's superficial knowledge of a subject, but they gave no indication of whether he could think...
From time to time, the doctrine of interposition was revived (notably by New England, against the War of 1812, and by Wisconsin, in a challenge to the Dred Scott Decision). South Carolina's John C. Calhoun brought the doctrine to its full flower. He gave the back of his hand to numerical majorities, inventing the phrase "concurrent majority," by which he meant the agreement of "each interest or portion of the [national] community." Each group should have a veto power to stop governmental action favored by all the others, much as the U.N. Security Council works-or fails...
...minimum amount of fairness. I need not pursue this point any further; the legal history of the south in relation to its Negro inhabitants leaves little room for quibbling here. The interested reader may well begin, on this point, with Chief Justice Taney's 1854 decision in the Dred-Scott case...