Plainly enough now, it was an exactly fitted niche for the Dred Scott decision afterward to come in, and declare that perfect freedom of the people to be just no freedom at all.

• 现在很清楚了：它为随后而至的德莱德．斯科特裁决提供了一个大小正合适的容身壁龛，并且声明人民完全的自由意味着根本的不自由。