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The Dred Scott case is arguably the most famous judicial decision in American history. It is certainly he most famous example of a judicial failure--"the most frequently overturned decision in history." Examined here in breadth and in depth by a distinguished historian, the case becomes a point of illumination, casting light upon more than a century of American history.On March 6, 1957, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney delivered the Supreme Court's decision against Dred Scott, a slave who maintained he had been emancipated as a result of having lived with his master in the free state of Illinois and in federal territory where slavery was forbidden by the Missouri Compromise. The decision did much more than resolve the fate of an elderly black man and his family. (Scott was manumitted anyway and died sixteen months later, even as Lincoln and Douglas were still debating his case. Dred Scott v. Sandford was the first instance in which the Supreme Court invalidated a major piece of federal .

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