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Summary: Excluding Slavery By Stephen Douglas
Excluding slavery from Stephen Douglas's argument I do believe that Douglas made some good points about state rights. He proposed that true freedom came from a local self-government. That a diverse nation needed to be respectful of its states in order to survive. Douglas uses the constitution to support his ideas. H says the constitution gives, "each state of this Union has a right to do as it pleases on the subject of slavery." He is correct in saying that the constitution give states the right to self govern under the federal government. When it came to talk about Missouri, and its decision on slavery he said, "hence I do not occupy the time allotted to me discussing a question that we have no right to act upon." He didn't want to
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