Supreme court chief justice taney (in the dred scott case) favored this position.
a. federalist
b. states rights
c. anti-federalist
d. national rights

The correct answer is B. In the Dred Scott Case, Supreme Court Chief Justice Taney favored states rights.

Explanation:

Taney was a Jacksonian Democrat when he became chief justice. He believed in the individual rights of each state but was a defender of the Union.

While in the Supreme Court, he adopted a conservative Jackson-inspired stance. He believed that freedom was extremely important and thought that concentrated power could be dangerous and a threat to individual freedoms. He was against the federal government trying to regulate or control matters that he said threatened the personal freedom of the people.

Taney supported slavery and was against giving rights to blacks. In the case of Dred Scott v. Sandford, a slave named Dred Scott appealed to the Supreme Court in the hope of gaining his freedom on the basis that his master had taken him to free territory where slavery was illegal. The court, led by Roger Taney, ruled that blacks were not and would not be US citizens under the constitution, so the plaintiff (Scott) had no legal basis for filing a court case. In his famous case for the case, Taney wrote that he believed that blacks "had no rights to which white men should respect; and that black men were justly and legally reduced to being slaves to their advantage".

a social contract.

"a social contract is an agreement between citizens and their leader where the citizens give up certain freedoms in exchange for protection. the constitution of the united states is an example of a social contract."

adopted the practice of proskynesis, a persian court custom that involved bowing down and kissing the hand of others, depending on their rank.