Freeport Doctrine in the United States
Freeport Doctrine
United States Constitution
According to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, about its article titled 378 FREEPORT DOCTRINEDuring the lincoln-douglas debates of 1858, Senator stephen a. douglas attacked abraham lincoln and the Republicans for their unwillingness to accept the Supreme Court’s decision in dred scott v. sandford (1857) , which held that Congress could not proscribe slavery in federal
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