 | Harry V. Jaffa - 2004 - 574 páginas
...Lincoln to Douglas in the second of their joint debates: "Can the people of a United States Territory, in any lawful way, against the wish of any citizen...limits prior to the formation of a State Constitution?" According to the legend that grew up around the Lincoln-Douglas debates, this was a sudden and unexpected... | |
 | Lowell Harrison - 2000 - 346 páginas
...One of them asked, "Can the people of a United States Territory, in any lawful way, against the will of any citizen of the United States, exclude slavery...limits prior to the formation of a State Constitution?" Lincoln assumed, rightly, that Douglas would stand by his doctrine of popular sovereignty. Douglas... | |
 | Bertrand Russell - 2001 - 532 páginas
...wished to hedge. Among other questions, Lincoln asked: "Can the people of a United States Territory, against the wish of any citizen of the United States,...limits, prior to the formation of a State constitution?" Douglas replied that they could do so, in spite of the Dred Scott decision; they could do so by "unfriendly... | |
 | Allen C. Guelzo - 1999 - 532 páginas
...which pinned Douglas to his own party's divisions — "Can the people of a United States Territory, in any lawful way, against the wish of any citizen...limits prior to the formation of a State Constitution?" — while the third tried to lure him into an admission that Dred Scott was simply the warm-up for... | |
 | Gerry Mackie - 2003 - 508 páginas
...for US senator from Illinois. Lincoln asked Douglas: "Can the people of a United States Territory, in any lawful way, against the wish of any citizen...limits prior to the formation of a state constitution?" (Riker 1986, 1-2). Much of the story is a recapitulation of our earlier discussions of the antebellum... | |
 | Roger Milton Barrus - 2004 - 178 páginas
...he posed his famous question in the Freeport debate: "Can the people of a United States Territory, in any lawful way. against the wish of any citizen...limits prior to the formation of a State Constitution?" 40 Douglas answered that question in the only way he could and still maintain support in the North:... | |
 | Charles Pierce Roland - 2004 - 348 páginas
...designed to place him in a dilemma. "Can the people of a United States Territory in any lawful way . . . exclude slavery from its limits prior to the formation of a State Constitution?" If Douglas answered yes, he would be repudiating the Dred Scott decision and would alienate many voters... | |
 | William Cohen - 2004 - 264 páginas
...the debates he asked Douglas, "Can the people of a United States Territory, in any lawful way . . . exclude slavery from its limits prior to the formation of a State Constitution?" Lincoln was thinking ahead. If Douglas answered "No," it could cost him the Free-Soil voters of Illinois.... | |
 | John W. Burgess - 2005 - 353 páginas
...President of the United States to exercise. Lincoln's famous question, as he finally formulated it, was : " Can the people of a United States Territory, under...limits, prior to the formation of a State constitution?" Douglas's intellectual insight was not clear enough and penetrating enough to discover the inconsistency... | |
 | Jason Porterfield - 2004 - 68 páginas
...Lincoln made throughout the debate. He asked Douglas if the people living in a territory had the right to "exclude slavery from its limits prior to the formation of a State Constitution?" If Douglas answered no, then Lincoln could claim that Douglas was not sincere about supporting popular... | |
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Can the people of a United States Territory, in any lawful way, against the wish of any citizen of the United States, exclude slavery from its limits prior to the formation of a State constitution? 
