Roger B. Taney quotes

Roger B. Taney was an American judge and the fifth Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. His most notable decision was the controversial Dred Scott v. Sandford ruling, which held that African Americans could not be citizens. He remains a highly debated figure in American legal and political history. Here are 4 of his quotes:

Every state has an undoubted right to determine the status, or domestic and social condition, of the persons domiciled within its territory except insofar as the powers of the states in this respect are restrained, or duties and obligations imposed upon them, by the Constitution of the United States.

Roger B. Taney

In England, the sovereignty resides exclusively in the person or individual who is king. All Englishmen are his subjects. And the highest peer in the realm... has no share in the sovereignty.

Roger B. Taney

It is an established principle of jurisprudence in all civilized nations that the sovereign cannot be sued in its own courts, or in any other, without its consent and permission; but it may, if it thinks proper, waive this privilege, and permit itself to be made a defendant in a suit by individuals, or by another State.

Roger B. Taney