How did the supreme courts decision in the dred Scott case effect the missouri compromise

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Govert · Answer 1 · 2020-08-18T01:42:22+0000

The Court ruled in the Dred Scott decision that Congress had exceeded its authority in The Missouri Compromise because it had no power to forbid or abolish slavery in the territories West of Missouri and North of latitude 36 degree 30 .

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