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...consider Professor Caldwell's "Short History of the American People". From his position as Professor of American History at Rice Institute, Texas, Mr. Caldwell writes weight into "the elements of human feeling and emotion". He cites the war hero presidents and places "Uncle Tom's Cabin" against the Dred Scott Decision. He delves moreover into the particular field of New England historians to characterize the Puritans. As he finds them, they were more wide-spread than is supposed, and their influence more glowingly complex...
...decisions only in litigated cases. In 1820, Congress passed a law, the Missouri Compromise, which provided that all new states admitted to the Union west of Missouri and north of 36° 30' should be free. Later-37 years later-the Supreme Court nullified that compromise in the Dred Scott case which helped to precipitate the Civil War. Many other laws have thus hung in the balance between constitutionality and unconstitutionality for years at a time, always with the possibility of their being overruled after much mischief, perhaps, had been done by the belief that they were valid...
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...concluding he said. "Although the first section of the 14th amendment does not expressly say that all persons born or naturalized in the United States are citizens, and although that provision unquestionably was meant to overthrow the view expressed by these judges in the Dred Scoff case, nevertheless today the express provision would be deemed unnecessary. No modern court could dream, even in the absence of the 14th amendment, that a free negro is not a citizen...
Bryce American Commonwealth, Vol. I; Cooper, American Politics; Cox, Three Decades of Congress; Doyle, English in America, Vol. III; Frothingham, Rise of the Republic; Van Holst, Calhoun; Van Holst, History of the United States, Vol. VI; Hosmer, Samuel Adams; Lodge, Hamilton; Lowell, Case of Dred Scott; Snow, Guide to U. S. History; Weed, Autobiography, Vols...