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Roger Taney

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Noun1.Roger Taney - United States jurist who served as chief justice of the United States Supreme CourtRoger Taney - United States jurist who served as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court; remembered for his ruling that slaves and their descendants have no rights as citizens (1777-1864)


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Chief Justice Roger Taney ruled, in an opinion of the court, that Scott was not a U.
The sentence, a bank-breaking fine that would leave both men virtually penniless, was handed down in the New Castle, Delaware courthouse by US Chief Justice Roger Taney.
17) To turn the Founders against the Founding, to expunge the authority of the idea of the equality of the rights of individual human persons, was the task to which Chief Justice Roger Taney set himself in Dred Scott 150 years ago.
 
 
 
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