Talk:Roger B. Taney
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Roger Taney was Andrew Jacksons secretary of treasury.
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[edit] Ambiguous Sentence
This sentence is ambiguous: "In 1819, he defended a Methodist minister who had been indicted for inciting slave insurrections by denouncing slavery in a camp meeting." Does this mean that Taney denounced slavery in a camp meeting, or the minister did? I'm assuming the latter, but I read it as the former the first time around and it gives a VASTLY different perspective on Taney's attitudes to read it that way... -JSoules
Brandon Lupo
- Thanks. I have incorporated that info into the page. Jacob1207 02:43, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Layout
Is it just my system, or does the image blot out some portions of the paragraph that describes Taney's migration to the Democratic Party?
Italo Svevo
[edit] Taney's role in Barron v. Baltimore
The full text of the Barron case reveals that one of the lawyers for the city of Baltimore was named Taney. Does anyone know if it was soon-to-be Chief Justice Taney arguing that case, or another Marylander lawyer named Taney? -- Sekicho 21:08, Jan 30, 2005 (UTC)
- Yes, actually. See this webpage (scroll all the way down the the bottom part!) for a brief confirmation: http://www.law.umaryland.edu/marshall/specialcollections/aslh/
- Liashi 22:14, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Attorney General and Treasury Secretary
Did Taney hold both of those roles concurrently for a time as indicated by the dates in the article? --Daysleeper47 14:46, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Alma Mater
I added the Alma Mater for Taney and cited it to this pagewhich has some usefull stuff about Taney. I have no time to do actual article work, but if somebody is interested I glimpsed over the page and it seems to have stuff the wikipedia entry is missing, if anyone is interested in expanding. --DFRussia 06:23, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Free Blacks were citizens of the United States
In his dissent Justice Benjamin Curtis noted that free Black citizens voted on the issue of adopting the Consitiution and for Justice Roger Taney to argue that some of the people who had given us the Constitution were not citizens was ridiculous. In his dissent Justice Curtis wrote:
"That Constitution was ordained and established by the people of the United States, through the action, in each State, or those persons who were qualified by its laws to act thereon, in behalf of themselves and all other citizens of that State. In some of the States, as we have seen, colored persons were among those qualified by law to act on this subject. These colored persons were not only included in the body of 'the people of the United States,' by whom the Constitution was ordained and established, but in at least five of the States they had the power to act, and doubtless did act, by their suffrages, upon the question of its adoption. It would be strange, if we were to find in that instrument anything which deprived of their citizenship any part of the people of the United States who were among those by whom it was established."
(From the Findlaw link in the Wiki article on Justice Benjamin Curtis.)
Since Justice Curtis is cited as praising Justice Taney and in denouncing President Abraham Lincoln I think that elemental fairness demands his demonstration that the Taney decision is based on a falsehood.01:57, 9 March 2008 (UTC)John Rydberg
- That comment appears to be referring to Benjamin Robbins Curtis, but has a few typos, and doesn't point to a specific source for the "Findlaw link". The point is unclear anyway Tedickey (talk) 14:08, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
