Best Taney Poems

We Are Not Afraid

Why should we be afraid?
If this were the case,
There would be no United States.

The founding fathers were not afraid
To face imprisonment or death;
General Washington led the Continental Army
To defeat British tyranny of America.

And if the Electoral College had not been constituted,
Abraham Lincoln...

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It was 1857, civil tension on the rise,
And the dialogue on servitude found little compromise.
Justice Taney cited precedent in making his decree: 
“A slave is not a citizen; it’s private property.”

Nine old white men in a smelly, smoke-filled room;
Nine old white men won’t be granting...

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