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The decision in the Dred Scott case was largely based on who?

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Dred Scott v. Sanford

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affirming the right of slave owners to take their slaves into the Western territories, thereby negating the doctrine of popular sovereignty and severely undermining the platform of the newly created Republican Party.

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