The Supreme Court said slaves were property and protected slave owners against seizure of property by way of the 5th Amendment in the Dred Scott case. If you follow that reasoning, forced abolition of slavery is a dead letter, baring a Constitutional Amendment. In other words, the Supreme Court said the South was right and that abolitionists should stop pressuring Congress to make laws that were unconstitutional, like the Missouri Compromise. If so, are folks in South Carolina justified in calling the Civil War the War of Northern Aggression?
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