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The enabling bill was passed to the Senate, and both parts of it were rejected: 22–16 against the restriction of new slaves in Missouri (supported by five northerners, two of whom were the proslavery legislators from the free state of Illinois) and 31–7 against the gradual emancipation for slave children born after statehood. [79]
The first constitution was written by Constitutional Convention in 1820 in only 38 days, and was adopted on July 19, 1820. [2] [3] One of the results of the Missouri Compromise, Missouri was initially admitted to the Union as a slave state, and the constitution specifically excluded "free negroes and mulattoes" from the state.
The legislation passed, and became known as "the Missouri Compromise", which temporarily settled the issue of slavery in the territories. [119] Monroe's presidential leadership role in drafting the Missouri Compromise is disputed.
State senators voted 22-9 along party lines to also require a majority of votes in five of the state's eight congressional districts to approve amendments. Republicans vote to make it harder to ...
GOP infighting and a record-breaking, 50-hour Democratic filibuster on Friday killed a Republican push to make amending Missouri's constitution harder, an effort in part aimed at thwarting an ...
Clay helped assemble a coalition that passed the Missouri Compromise, as Thomas's proposal became known. [91] Further controversy ensued when Missouri's constitution banned free blacks from entering the state, but Clay was able to engineer another compromise that allowed Missouri to join as a state in August 1821. [92]
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Then, on February 25, 1820, the court passed a follow-up measure officially accepting the fact of Maine's imminent statehood. [54] Maine became the 23rd state on March 15, 1820, as part of the Missouri Compromise, which also geographically limited the spread of slavery and enabled the admission to statehood of Missouri the following year. [55 ...