Republicans Proclaimed That They Were Not Bound by the Dred

Republicans proclaimed that they were not bound by the Dred Scott ruling because

A) Scott lacked standing to sue, as the Court determined, making the rest of the ruling null and void.
B) Chief Justice Roger B. Taney was no longer of sound mind.
C) the majority of the Supreme Court justices were southerners.
D) the Missouri Compromise had already been invalidated by the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
E) popular sovereignty had proven its worth in Kansas.

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