Dred Scott

Definition: Dred Scott

Dred Scott

Noun

1. United States slave who sued for liberty after living in a non-slave state; caused the Supreme Court to declare the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional (1795?-1858).

Synonym: Dred Scott

Synonym: Scott (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Dred Scott

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Dred Scott (ca. 1799 - September 17, 1858) was a slave who sued unsuccessfully for his freedom in the famous Dred Scott v. Sanford which bears his name. His case was based on the fact that his wife Harriet had once lived in states and territories where slavery was illegal. The court ruled 7 to 2 against Dred, stating that slaves were property, and the court could not deprive people of their property without due process of law according to the Fifth Amendment. This case was one of the major factors leading to the American Civil War.

Some years after the case, Scott was returned to his original owners, who granted him his freedom less than a year and a half before his death.

External link

A biography from the Missouri state government

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Dred Scott."

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	The political quadrille. Music by Dred Scott. Credit: Library of Congress.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Dred Scott

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
dred scott	237
dred scott decision	83
1857 decision dred scott	3
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Anagrams: Dred Scott

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
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	-2 letters: codders, cotters, dotters.
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	Words containing the letters "c-d-d-e-o-r-s-t-t"
	+4 letters: deconstructed.
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