The Crittenden Compromise was mainly about creating an unamendable amendment to the Constitution allowing slavery below the latitude 36 -30. It also stipulated that all prior political party affiliations be changed to the Union Party. The idea was to work out some sort of compromise to prevent the session of the South.
The Crittenden Compromise was mainly about creating an unamendable amendment to the Constitution allowing slavery below the latitude 36 -30. It also stipulated that all prior political party affiliations be changed to the Union Party. The idea was to work out some sort of compromise to prevent the session of the South.
The Crittenden Compromise was mainly about creating an unamendable amendment to the Constitution allowing slavery below the latitude 36 -30. It also stipulated that all prior political party affiliations be changed to the Union Party. The idea was to work out some sort of compromise to prevent the session of the South.
crittenden compromise
John J. Crittenden
Crittenden
The proposed constitutional amendment did not pass.Voters rejected the proposed constitutional amendment.Unwilling to create more debt, the proposed constitutional amendment was bound to fail.
The Three-fifths Compromise was proposed by delegates James Wilson and Roger Sherman during the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention.. It was added as Article 1, Section 2, Paragraph 3 to the United States Constitution . It was superceded and thereby rescinded by the 14th Amendment in 1868.
Crittendens compromise
Proposed a compromise after South Carolina's secession.
2/3 vote
The two men who proposed amendments to the constitution that would outlaw abolition were representative Thomas Corwin and Senator John Crittenden. Thomas Corwin was from Ohio and John Crittenden was from Kentucky.
An amendment to the Constitution can be proposed in two ways; either through Congress or through a Constitutional Convention.