Taney, Roger Brooke
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...River Bridge Case (1837) Taney declared that a state charter...Dartmouth College Case (1819). Taney felt that the police power...override provisions of the U.S. Constitution; thus, he held that, although...fugitive slave laws , however, Taney denied to free states the power...