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Hardcover Dred Scott's Revenge: A Legal History of Race and Freedom in America Book

ISBN: 1595552650

ISBN13: 9781595552655

Dred Scott's Revenge: A Legal History of Race and Freedom in America

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Racial hatred is one of the ugliest of human emotions. And the United States not only once condoned it, it also mandated it'wove it right into the fabric of American jurisprudence. Federal and state governments legally suspended the free will of blacks for 150 years and then denied blacks equal protection of the law for another 150. How did such crimes happen in America? How were the laws of the land, even the Constitution itself, twisted into repressive and oppressive legislation that denied people their inalienable rights? Taking the Dred Scott case of 1957 as his shocking center, Judge Andrew P. Napolitano tells the story of how it happened and, through it, builds a damning case against American statesmen from Lincoln to Wilson, from FDR to JFK. Born a slave in Virginia, Dred Scott sued for freedom based on the fact that he had lived in states and territories where slavery was illegal. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against Scott, denied citizenship to blacks, and spawned more than a century of government-sponsored maltreatment that destroyed lives, suppressed freedom, and scarred our culture. Dred Scott's Revenge is the story of America's long struggle to provide a new context'one in which "All men are created equal," and government really treats them so.

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Federal Government and the Courts on Race

Judge Napolitano does a great job of showing the inherent sin written into our Constitution (3/5th clause) and the historical wrongsidedness of the courts and federal government. He brings us through major court decisions like Scott, Plessy and Brown and he looks at events and individuals (in stark honesty) like Civil War and Lincoln (antebellum and bellum) and the progressive movement and Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson...

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America Wake Up

There are too many people that want to bury their head in the sand and pretend that our government wants what's best for the citizens. Andrew Napolitano is a former judge, and he KNOWS what he's talking about. This is one of the few books that is waking up America's people in order to save 230 years of freedoms from being washed down the drain. Judge Napolitano brings facts to the table, like only a true judge can. I hope...

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The story no other history book will tell...

In Dred Scott's Revenge, Judge Andrew Napolitano recounts the story of racism in America. Juxtaposing slavery and the continued racism in the post-Civil War era with the ideal of "all men are created equal" as imbedded in the Constitution, Napolitano makes the case that America has not always practiced what it preached. This stunning expose does not hesitate to show the hypocrisy of the Founding Fathers in penning the Constitution...

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A very worthwhile recouting of how violation of the natural rights of African Americans has distorte

Judge Andrew Napolitano has written three previous books explaining his views on the role of natural law and our constitution. I have written favorable views of each of them even though I cannot follow him to the full extent of his arguments. For example, and he brings it up again in this book, he thinks very poorly of Abraham Lincoln and blames him for starting the Civil War. Nevertheless, and I want to be clear about...

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Dred Scott's Revenge -- A MUST Read

Dred Scott's Revenge: A Legal History of Race and Freedom in America... is thought provoking book which sheds light on the dark side of legal history throughout our country's history. A very highly recommend book to say the least. Judge Napolitano shows how "Natural Law" (God Given Rights or Rights come from our Humanity pg. xii) and "Positivism" (the law is whatever the lawgiver says it is or the majority says pg. xiii,...

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