... also adhere to the Constitution as the people have the right to property and opponents would argue that slaves are property. From 1837, when Lincoln first attacked slavery as bad politics, his thoughts evolved from thinking that slavery would eventually die out by compromising that southern states could have its slaves without expanding, to 1854, when the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed, as ... is a consistency here with that stance as Lincoln also argued that expanding slavery would expanding intermingling with whites and blacks and by limiting its expansion, it would leave the federal ...

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