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• Calhoun, John C.
  ...s in his 1837 address to the Senate entitled “Speech on the Reception of Abolition Petitions” that Calhoun contributed to the development of the South’s p
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• Capital Punishment
  ...d excesses of capital punishment, with several states pursuing the path of abolition by the mid-nineteenth century. Over the past quarter century, though, the U ...cause of genuine doubts about congressional power to so regulate. Judicial abolition, on the other hand, remains a real possibility, especially if the extreme r
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• Franklin, Benjamin
  ...|Constitution]] was ratified, he wrote an antislavery treatise; ultimately abolition would prove necessary for deepening the union into one of equally free and
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• Guarantee Clause
  ...constitutionally impermissible at the national level), for legislating the abolition of state and local government patronage systems for staffing government job
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• Jackson, Andrew
  ...dominance, high tariffs, and public land policy. These concerns led to the abolition of property qualifications for voting, the end of the caucus system, greate SEE ALSO: [[Abolition]]; [[Adams, John]]; [[Admission of New States]]; [[Charles River Bridge Com
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• Missouri Compromise of 1820
  ...e it through the Senate. Even those Southerners who hoped for the eventual abolition of slavery opposed the legislation in the name of sectional balance. In Jan SEE ALSO: [[Abolition]]; [[Admission of New States]]; [[Clay, Henry]]; [[Louisiana Purchase]]; [[
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• Women’s Rights
  ...ranted black men the right to vote, the women who had been involved in the abolition movement felt betrayed because they were denied the right to vote, despite
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