Free Dred Scott v. Sanford DBQ Lesson Plan
This decision declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional. The ruling held that people of African descent were not citizens under Article III of the Constitution, but rather, they were property. Furthermore, slaves were not made free because they traveled into a free state.
The Court stressed the importance of safeguarding what it called property rights: “the rights of property are united with the rights of person, and placed on the same ground by the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution, which provides that no person shall be deprived of life, liberty, and property, without due process of law.