What was the outcome of the Dred Scott Case in the North? What was the outcome of John Brown's raid in the South?

1. Dred Scott-- Well..I'm sure the South viewed it as a positive thing. The

North, of course, abhorred it. They began to worry that slavery

was, indeed, legal in the North. They also began to worry that slaves in the South would soon have very few (if any) rights at  all.

This case came at a very tender time in the US, as slavery was a

hot topic of all the elections, and a source of major conflict

between the North and South. The rulings of this court case blew

all previous conflicts out of the water, and set forth a new wave

of bitter disagreement.

2. John Brown's raid- Although the raid failed, it inflamed sectional tensions and raised the stakes for the 1860 presidential election. Brown's raid helped make any further accommodation between North and South nearly impossible and thus became an important impetus of the Civil War.

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explanation:

in the united states, the president is controlled by the

constitution, and in all respects subordinate to it. insofar

as it deals with presidential power, however, the american

constitution has proved to be a highly malleable document.

with very few exceptions,' the constitutional provisions relating to the president have not been changed at all since

they were ratified in 1787. but in the late twentieth century, those provisions do not mean what they meant in

1787. the constitution is a legal document, and it is enforced judicially; but its meaning was hardly fixed when it

was ratified. in particular, the contemporary president has

far broader powers than the original constitution contemplated. it is remarkable but true that large-scale changes in

the authority of the president have been brought about

without changes in the constitutional text, but nevertheless

without significant illegality.

this is a paradox. is it not clear that constitutional

changes, if not textual, are illegal? the paradox has considerable relevance to our current thinking about the presidency in particular and about constitutionalism in general.

perhaps the framers of the american constitution feared

legislative power most of all; 2 but from well-known events

in the twentieth century, it is possible to conclude that it is

presidential power that holds out the greatest risks to both

liberty and democracy. the president is by far the most visible leader in the nation; he is often the only person in government with a national constituency. moreover, he is