... could not be denied the right to carry their property into the territory, which would be deprivation of property without due process of law. Henry Clay and others expressed a view, which Thomas Jefferson and James Madison now shared, that the expansion and dispersal of slavery would ameliorate ... 1820, President James Monroe signed the amendment allowing Maine to become a free state. On March 6,1820, President Monroe signed the Missouri Enabling Act or called the Thomas Amendment allowing Missouri to petition for its statehood. Senator Jesse B. Thomas would be responsible for writing t...

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