tawney made the point that it wasot slavery, that determined citizenship in this country. ■]an tawneytt didn't have black m. second thing, he went on to say that wasn'particular decision. he didn't need to go on to say this, but the second thing he acted unkind when it crafted the missouri compromise of 1820. our practice historically had been that could do this. so when tawney says they shouldn't have done it, they didn't have that right. they didn't have that power. so lincolns forced by th decisie are at the same time,hesupreme e same kind of powerth does today. and so many people ignore the supreme court. they said, we don't agree. we're not to go along with this. ey engaged all kinds of nullification of this idea. certain states even passed laws and past pronouncements invalidate writing the drebut lf th■n decision because, of course, southerners were constantly claiming that this decision was the decision. so lincoln responded by saying that the supreme court simply does not have that power. lincoln repeats this about the refers to dred scott in these terms of being, you know, j