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No doctrine involving more pernicious consequences was ever invented by the wit of man than any [constitutional] provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government.
Roger Brooke Taney
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We must look at the institution of slavery as publicists, and not as casuists. It is a question of law, and not a case of conscience.
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