Most western countries have representative systems. Switzerland is a rare example of a country with instruments of direct democracy (at the levels of the municipalities, cantons, and federal state). Citizens have more power than in a representative democracy.
Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger B<span>. </span>Taney<span> made the pro-slavery ruling in the 1857 Dred Scott Case that deemed blacks weren't citizens of the United </span>States<span>.</span>
