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Excerpt from Lincoln and Civil Liberty
It is barely possible that there was some disposition on the part of leading Republicans to pay little attention to Taney's constitutional views because of his Dred Scott Deci sion which logically outlawed the Republican party, but Taney's views on the suspension of the writ were widely shared by lawyers generally. B. R. Curtis declared, If he [taney] had never done anything else that was high, heroic and important, his noble vindication of the writ of habeas corpus and of the dignity and authority of his office, against a rash minister of state, who, in the pride of fancied executive power, came near to the commissmn of a great crime, will command the admiration and gratitude of every lover of constitutional liberty, so long as our institutions shall endure.
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