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In the Scott v. Sandford case, Sandford argued that
an enslaved person in a free state should be granted freedom.
a person’s property
be taken away without due process.
enslaved workers should not be considered property.
enslaved workers should have the right to a trial by jury.

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The second option. Sandford’s position (and the Supreme Court majority in Dred Scott v. Sandford) was that enslaved people were property and could not be taken away without due process of law (so Congress could not bar slavery in the territories).