Analysis Of Prudence, Providence, And The Limits Of The Nationalization Of Slavery

In pursuing a very different direction of the passage “a house divided against itself cannot stand” and the Fredrick Douglas excerpt[i], the opposing argument remains, centralization takes away individual freedom. Justin Buckley Dyer in his work, Revisiting Dred Scott: Prudence, Providence, And the Limits of Constitutional Statesmanship stated the Court logic of the Scott decision[ii]. Dyer rightly surmised, “The principle announced by the Court, in other words, tended toward the resolution of the slavery question through the nationalization of slavery via the judiciary.”[1] Nevertheless, Douglas still endorsed a nationalization movement, "When I join any movement such as I suppose contemplated, I must have a country or the hope of a country