R. J. Zimmerman
@photonicsmarketing.com
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What if you could do a bunch of lab tests at home anytime with no needles? Ask me about it! I listen to boring, droning, music, and bike a lot to stay happy. I comment on politics and culture to ruin all that.
![Chief among the critics of Dred Scott was Abraham Lin-coln. Soon after the Court released the decision, Lincoln declared that "[t]he Dred Scott decision is erroneous" and did "obvious violence to the plain unmistakable language of the Declaration [of Independence]." His Speeches and Writ-](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5ktn22tumoxcdgmownjfunav/bafkreidozeqhg63nj3lxusiwvzzz5w6u5yyz2vzej7tgcdoovc5gqxacfu)
![This approach was consistent with this country's settler ethos. Daniel Webster wrote that "no government has carried th[e] general presumption f[u]rther" than the United States that a person attains a new "national character" when he "settles" and "inten[ds] permanently to reside" in a nation. Report of Secretary of State D. Webster (Dec. 23, 1851), H. R. Exec. Doc. No. 10, 32d Cong., 1st Sess., 2 (1860)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5ktn22tumoxcdgmownjfunav/bafkreig37slwjeq5xhf76lhhf7k5yxbdcpcpbpihnrt53vv3rbqdsnp65i)
![Chief Justice Earl Warren for the majority in 1957: "The essentiality of
freedom in the community of American universities is almost self-evident. No one should underestimate the vital role in a democracy that is played by those who guide and train our youth. To impose any straitjacket upon the intellectual leaders in our colleges and universities would imperil the future of our Nation. No field of education is so thoroughly comprehended by man that new discoveries cannot yet be made. Particularly is that true in the social sciences, where few, if any, principles are accepted as absolutes. Scholarship cannot flourish in an atmosphere of suspicion and distrust. Teachers and students must always remain free to inquire, to study and to evaluate, to gain new maturity and understanding; otherwise,
our civilization will stagnate and die." (354 U.S. 234, 250 [1957]|](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5ktn22tumoxcdgmownjfunav/bafkreihhl364zrw5mfzg4r3gyx66lqhwvettb6rtp6sfztxhwdr7t7wg44)
