Henry Clay
Henry Clay
Abraham Lincoln proposed a law prohibiting slavery in the territories as part of the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates during his senatorial campaign in 1858. Lincoln argued that the founding fathers intended for slavery to be contained and eventually abolished rather than expanded into new territories.
Henry Clay
Henry Clay
David Wilmot, a Democratic congressman from Pennsylvania, proposed the Wilmot Proviso in 1846, which sought to ban slavery in the territories acquired from Mexico as a result of the Mexican-American War. The proviso was never passed into law but fueled tensions over the expansion of slavery in the United States.
The Higher Law doctrine stated that slavery should be excluded from the territories as contrary to a divine moral law standing above even the Constitution. Senator Seward proposed this doctrine in 1851.
The Kansas Nebraska Act reopened argument over the spread of slavery into territories of the Louisiana Purchase.
The Wilmot Proviso, proposed in 1846, aimed to prohibit slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico as a result of the Mexican-American War. Despite never becoming law, it sparked intense debate over the expansion of slavery into newly acquired territories.
It is the principle of Higher Law.
The law prohibiting slavery north of parallel 36 30' north was called the Missouri Compromise. This statute was a compromise agreed to by the opposing pro-slavery and anti-slavery reached in 1820 under the presidency of James Monroe.
The law prohibiting slavery north of parallel 36 30' north was called the Missouri Compromise. This statute was a compromise agreed to by the opposing pro-slavery and anti-slavery reached in 1820 under the presidency of James Monroe.
The law prohibiting the teaching of evolution was upheld