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The Northwest Ordinance of 1787
NW ordinance of 1787
Henry Clay
Henry Clay
Henry Clay
The Supreme Court in the Dred Scott decision declared the Missouri Compromise of 1820 unconstitutional. The Court ruled that Congress did not have the authority to prohibit slavery in the territories, as it violated the property rights of slave owners guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.
The Kansas Nebraska Act reopened argument over the spread of slavery into territories of the Louisiana Purchase.
It is the principle of Higher Law.
Slavery was actually ended by a law originally established by Abraham Lincoln. After the civil war slavery was banned and illegal
law
Senator William Seward's doctrine, known as the "Higher Law" doctrine, argued that slavery should be excluded from the territories because it violated a moral law that was higher than the Constitution. He believed that moral principles were more important than legal statutes and that slavery could not be justified under any circumstances.
Some northern states made slavery against the law.
its either - the senate passed a fugitive law banning slavery in states where it was currently leagal OR - The lagality of slavery had to be decided in lands added from the Mexican Cession. OR - Northern congressmen wanted California to entehr the Union as a Free State.... SO SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME FIND THE ANSWER... IT HAS TO BE ONE OF THESE...