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It was pro-slavery. The Problem with that was many abolitionists from the North went to Kansas and Nebraska when they heard that slavery would be decided by popular sovereignty, or the popular vote. Lincoln Vetoed the Constitution, and there was enough opposition in Kansas for it not to pass.

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