| James M. McPherson - 2003 - 947 Seiten
...final form the legislation organizing Utah and New Mexico specified that when admitted as states "they shall be received into the Union, with or without...constitution may prescribe at the time of their admission." This said nothing about slavery during the territorial stage. The omission was deliberate. Congress... | |
| Roger L. Ransom - 1989 - 340 Seiten
...chap. 7. 4 The language proposed in the initial bill stated that the new territory would be admitted to the union "with or without slavery, as their constitution may prescribe at the time of their admission." Several days later the bill was amended to read "that all questions pertaining to slavery . . . are... | |
| 1862 - 602 Seiten
...into the Union was to determine whether it recognized slavery or not ; and, in the words of the Act, ' when admitted as a State or States the said territory,...into the Union, with or without slavery, as their institutions may prescribe at the time of their admission.' But the decision in the Dred Scott case... | |
| Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas - 1991 - 474 Seiten
...problem of slavery— the rock on which all previous measures had foundered— with a clause reading: "And when admitted as a State or States, the said...constitution may prescribe at the time of their admission." This was the identical language of the Utah and New Mexico acts, passed in 1850 as parts of the compromise... | |
| David Herbert Donald - 1995 - 724 Seiten
...similar fate for his new bill by providing that the territory, "when admitted as a State or States, . . . shall be received into the Union, with or without slavery, as their constitution may prescribe." Taking these words from the 1850 acts organizing New Mexico and Utah, Douglas thus extended the doctrine... | |
| Robert Walter Johannsen - 1973 - 1012 Seiten
...the forty-ninth parallel. In the phraseology of the Utah and New Mexico acts, the bill provided that "when admitted as a state or states, the said territory,...constitution may prescribe at the time of their admission." The bill further provided that the legislative power of the territory should extend to all rightful... | |
| Michael F. Holt - 1999 - 1302 Seiten
...States carved out of those territories, moreover, were explicitly guaranteed admission by Congress "with or without slavery, as their constitution may prescribe at the time of their admission," and territorial legislatures were granted the power to pass pro- or antislavery laws during the territorial... | |
| Jim F. Watts, Fred L. Israel - 2000 - 416 Seiten
...consequence. Congress has also prescribed that when the Territory of Kansas shall be admitted as a State it "shall be received into the Union with or without...constitution may prescribe at the time of their admission." A difference of opinion has arisen in regard to the point of time when the people of a Territory shall... | |
| Harry V. Jaffa - 2004 - 574 Seiten
...consequence, Congress has also prescribed that, when the Territory of Kansas shall be admitted as a State, it "shall be received into the Union, with or without...constitution may prescribe at the time of their admission." A difference of opinion has arisen in regard to the point of time when the people of a Territory shall... | |
| David W. Brady, Mathew Daniel McCubbins - 2002 - 574 Seiten
...17, added, "And when the said Territory, or any portion of the same, shall be admitted as a State, it shall be received into the Union with or without slavery,...constitution may prescribe at the time of their admission" (Congressional Globe, June 6, 1850: 1239). This amendment "was a promise by one Congress that a later... | |
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