Dred Scott slave was held in Missouri and then taken the free territory in Wisconsin where he lived 2 years then returning to Missouri. They argued that he was in free soil yet still enslaved. He sued for freedom In Missouri in 1846. The court decided against Scott due to...
-he had no right to sue because Africans were not citizens
-congress could not deprive people of property (slaves were property)
-the Missouri compromise was unconstitutional.
1. The main point of the excerpt is that the states are in a contract with the federal government and can cancel or ignore measures used that are in violation of that contract. Essentially the states are allowed to ignore laws, like the Alien and Sedition Acts, when the states believe they violate their rights.
2. Because the Alien and Sedition Acts put a watch on anyone new to the country under the Alien Act and the Sedition Act allowed the government to arrest people if they spoke against the government. These acts allowed the government to violate rights granted under the Constitution.
3. Because accepting the acts would be a violation of the highest laws of the land. It would be the governments willingly violating the rights of the people and allowing the federal government to have power larger than granted to them under the Constitution.
I believe that the answer would be D
The Kansas-Nebraska Act let the issue of slavery be decided by the states via popular sovereignty.
Austro-Hungarian Empire
The Austro-Hungarian Empire collapsed after World War I, and the subsequent Treaty of Trianon established Hungary's current borders, resulting in the loss of 71% of its territory, 58% of its population, and 32% of ethnic Hungarians.
