Taney
Proper noun
Meaning
Taney
A surname from Anglo-Norman.
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Examples
According to the Taney County Health Department, residents and family members have been notified of the positive cases.
Based on this property-rights centered argument, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, in Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857), found the Missouri Compromise unconstitutionally violated due process."
Justice Taney ruled that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional and that African Americans had no standing as citizens under the constitution.
It was Taney who wrote the majority opinion in the Dred Scott decision of 1857 which said that all people of African descent, free or enslaved, were not United States citizens and, therefore, had no right to sue for their freedom in federal court.
In Dred Scott v. Sandford, decided in 1857, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney ruled that blacks could never be citizens of the United States, even if they were treated as citizens in the states where they lived.
One sad-looking clump of coconut palms was jokingly called King-Doyle Park after two well-known citizens of Hawaii who visited on the Taney in 1938.