Republicans and conservative Southern Democrats believed that the new frontier was too costly. They also opposed an increase of federal power.
Congress doesn't elect new members. The people from their state elect the people who will represent them in Congress.
President Kennedy's New Frontier program met resistance at first because Americans thought his ideas were socialist and too close to communist ideals. At the time, most members of Congress were conservative and opposed to changes.
All of them. There are no poor members of Congress.
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they believed it made government too powerful
The New Frontier.
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Some southerners felt the ships would be used to protect the trade of New England, but do little for southern economies. Some members of Congress thought a navy would be a foolish challenge to the world's mightiest navy.
Because it could have allowed both those states to practise slavery, in contravention of the Missouri Compromise. (By 1854, it was getting much more difficult to create new slave-states at all.)
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They opposed this fearing that the new states in the west would become Jeffersonian and the rapidly expanding frontier would 'decivilize' the entire nation.
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