...meaning") that, finally, executes with a force unseen the immediate purposes of the judicial translator: "The Constitution recognizes the right of property...of property and other property owned by a citizen ... an ordinary article of merchandise and property." As Taney's rhetoric manipulates force and purposiveness...

...enlarge the powers of the Government, or take from the citizens the rights they have reserved. And if the Constitution recognizes the right of property...whether it be legislative, executive, or judicial, has a right to draw such a distinction, or deny to it the benefit of the provisions and guarantees which...

...distinction between that description of property and other property owned by a citizen" and that therefore, "no tribunal, acting under the authority of the United...whether it be legislative, executive, or judicial, has a right to draw such a distinction, or deny to it the benefit of the provisions and guarantees which...

...made some human beings the owners of other human beings. "[T]he Constitution," Taney reasonably wrote, "recognizes the right of property of the master in...of property and other property owned by a citizen." Hence, he continued, "no tribunal acting under the authority of the United States . . . has a right...

...enlarge the powers of the government, or take from the citizens the rights they have reserved. And' if the Constitution recognizes the right of property...whether it be legislative, executive, or judicial, has a right to draw such a distinction, or deny to it the benefit of the provisions and guarantees which...

...point, the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution And if the Constitution recognizes the right of property of the master in a slav and makes no distinction between that description of property and other property owned by a citizen,...