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Because the court had sensationally ruled that slavery was legal in every state of the Union. They had decided to interpret the Constitution in the way that the Founding Fathers would have done. When they declared that a man's property was sacred, they would have included slaves within their definition of property. The Court had also declared that a black man could not be an American citizen, and had no business taking a white man to court. All of this was music to the ears of the Southern planters.
The Dred Scott decision
The Dred Scott decision stated that people of African decent imported to America were not citizens and not protected by the Constitution. The fourteenth and fifteenth amendments nullified that decision.
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