Henry Clay
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
The Kansas Nebraska Act reopened argument over the spread of slavery into territories of the Louisiana Purchase.
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
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The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was a law that helped spread slavery to the West by requiring the return of escaped slaves to their owners, even in free states. This law strengthened the institution of slavery and contributed to its expansion into new territories.
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.