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Mr. Lincoln and Freedom: Lincoln–Douglas Debates Archived July 8, 2013, at the Wayback Machine; Abraham Lincoln: A Resource Guide from the Library of Congress; Free audio book of "Noted Speeches of Abraham Lincoln," including the Lincoln-Douglas Debates. Booknotes interview with Harold Holzer on The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, August 22, 1993 ...
The Freeport Doctrine was articulated by Stephen A. Douglas on August 27, 1858, in Freeport, Illinois, at the second of the Lincoln-Douglas debates.Former one-term U.S. Representative Abraham Lincoln was campaigning to take Douglas's U.S. Senate seat by strongly opposing all attempts to expand the geographic area in which slavery was permitted.
During the Lincoln–Douglas debates, Douglas articulated the Freeport Doctrine, which held that territories could effectively exclude slavery despite the Supreme Court's ruling in the 1857 case of Dred Scott v. Sandford. Disagreements over slavery led to the bolt of Southern delegates at the 1860 Democratic National Convention.
History professor William Urban takes a look back at the debate between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas in Monmouth in 1858. Political debates spark trip down memory lane of Lincoln, Douglas ...
The series of seven debates in 1858 between Abraham Lincoln and Senator Stephen A. Douglas for U.S. Senate were true, face-to-face debates, with no moderator; the candidates took it in turns to open each debate with a one-hour speech, then the other candidate had an hour and a half to rebut, and finally the first candidate closed the debate with a half-hour response.
Lincoln and Stephen Douglas had seven debates through the summer and fall of 1858, in different communities all around Illinois. They were held from 2 p.m. to about 5 p.m.
Pages in category "Stephen A. Douglas" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. ... Lincoln–Douglas debate format; The Lincoln–Douglas ...
These are not heady days for the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, if they are eyeing the polls. In the fall, Gallup found just 41% of those surveyed approved of the court’s job performance.