... the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed, as it stated Congress had no right to prohibit the expansion of slavery to federal territories, and this would radicalize Lincoln's idea of a southern conspiracy that threatened the ideas of the Founding Fathers, which gave him a distinct moral conviction and tone to his political argument. Now in order to understand Lincoln's opinion on how the ... decided that slaves were property and did not the liberty of being a citizen, resulted in Congress possessing no authority to prohibit slavery on federal territories. Lincoln would speak of a southern cons...

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