...attached to other Stales or Territories when and as Congress may deem proper. When admitted as a Slate, the said Territory, or any portion of the same, shall...received into the Union, with or without slavery, as its constitution may prescribe at the time of its admission. Every free white male inhabitant, above...

...created into a temporary govern•mtoonstales "lent by the name of the Territory of Kansas; and when or without slavery, as their constitution may prescribe at ^ the time of their admission: Provided, That nothing in this to attach part of act contained shall be construed to inhibit the government...

...proper, or from attaching any portion thereof to anv other Territory or State ; and provided, further, that, when admitted as a State, the said Territory...Constitution may prescribe at the time of their admission." Sec. 2—7. Vest the executive and legislative power. 6. Limits the franchise to whites. 7. " The legislative...

...Congress has already prescribed that, when the Territory of Kan03 shall be admitted as a State, it ' shall be received into the Union with or without Slavery, as their Constitution may prescribe it the time of their admission.1 *"A difference of opinion has arisen in regard to the point of time...

...The familiar Soule clause declared that "when admitted as a state or states, the said territory . . . shall be received into the Union, with or without slavery as their constitutions may prescribe." There was also the same provision for easy access to the Supreme Court...

...Mexico-Utah legislation of 1850: that "when admitted as a State or States, the said territory . . . shall be received into the Union, with or without...constitution may prescribe at the time of their admission." There was to be no explicit mention of the Missouri Compromise, and Douglas appeared to assume that...

...territories of Kansas and Nebraska and stipulated that any states formed out of those territories could enter the Union with or without slavery, "as their constitution may prescribe at the time of their admission." In the meantime, the inhabitants themselves could determine the status of slavery in the newly created...

...temporary government by the name of the Territory of Kansas, and when admitted as a State or States, the said Territory, or any portion of the same, shall-...constitution may prescribe at the time of their admission." Kansas received its name from the Kansas River and Nebraska was named for the Nebraska, or Platte River....

...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...

...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...