The Dred Scott case may be the most famous, but Supreme Court decisions on other cases have helped shape national laws.

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This article is from the archive of our partner . Brazenly, in Citizens United, the court employed parallel logic to the syllogism embedded in the most repugnant ruling it ever made, the 1857 Dred ...

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Through the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, the 1857 Dred Scott case, and back to the beginning of the republic, Supreme Court ...

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