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... constitution for the future state of Kansas . Since the territorial electorate was offered only the choice of accepting the constitution with or without a provision for the further introduction of slavery , slavery as it already existed ...
... constitution for the future state of Kansas . Since the territorial electorate was offered only the choice of accepting the constitution with or without a provision for the further introduction of slavery , slavery as it already existed ...
Page 212
... constitutional short cuts proved so short - lived . Never again would Confederate leaders get away with so much so easily . The great bulk of the permanent Confederate constitution was a carbon copy of the work of the Founding Fathers ...
... constitutional short cuts proved so short - lived . Never again would Confederate leaders get away with so much so easily . The great bulk of the permanent Confederate constitution was a carbon copy of the work of the Founding Fathers ...
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... constitution itself must be amended or abandoned ( although William Lloyd Garrison , who had de- nounced the constitution as ' a covenant with death and an agreement with hell ' , admitted in 1861 that ' I had no idea that I should live ...
... constitution itself must be amended or abandoned ( although William Lloyd Garrison , who had de- nounced the constitution as ' a covenant with death and an agreement with hell ' , admitted in 1861 that ' I had no idea that I should live ...
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