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Yes. He thought the people of each new state should vote whether it ought to be slave or free ('Popular Sovereignty').

He didn't foresee the problem about just one thinly-populated state voting at a time. Every bully-boy in America - from both sides - would cross into the state and intimidate voters. The resulting violence was called 'Bleeding Kansas'.

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