Senator Stephen A. Douglas' Dividing Line doctrine, often associated with his stance on popular sovereignty, proposed that the question of slavery's expansion into the territories should be determined by the settlers themselves rather than by federal legislation. This doctrine was articulated during the debates surrounding the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, which effectively repealed the Missouri Compromise and allowed for the possibility of slavery in areas previously designated as free. Douglas believed this approach would resolve sectional tensions by allowing local self-determination, but it ultimately intensified conflicts over slavery in the territories.
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Senator Stephen A. Douglas put forth the argument that if the Missouri Compromise of 1850 really was a compromise, it had to put forward a consistent principle. If it did not then it was not a compromise, but instead a modus vivendi arrangement. The main problem of this characterization is that Douglas was asking a rhetorical question. Douglas was the one to know inasmuch as he helped put it together.
Senator from Illinois who ran for president against Abraham Lincoln. Wrote the Kansas-Nebreaska Act and the Freeport Doctrine
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Stephen Douglas' Freeport Doctrine referred to the proposal that territories had the right to refuse slavery if they chose. This was against a Supreme Court decision. The doctrine was espoused in his debates with Abraham Lincoln in 1858.
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His debate partner was Senator Stephen Douglas from Illinois. Douglas was a celebrated debater and speaker.
Stephen A. Douglas, US senator from Illinois was their candidate in 1860.
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Senator Stephen A. Douglas ran successfully as the senator from Illinois. He also ran as a Democrat in the 1860 presidential elections. He lost. Before the US Civil War ended, Douglas died.
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