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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]
It passed a bill for the admission of Maine with an amendment enabling the people of Missouri to form a state constitution. Before the bill was returned to the House, a second amendment was adopted, on the motion of Jesse B. Thomas of Illinois , to exclude slavery from the Louisiana Territory north of 36°30 north , the southern boundary of ...
The bill calling the convention passed on 17 January. The election was scheduled for 18 February, with three delegates chosen from each state senate district (99 total). In addition, by an amendment submitted by Charles H. Hardin , a secession declaration by the convention would have to be ratified in a referendum by a majority vote of the ...
Madison initially opposed the Constitution's 20-year protection of the foreign slave trade, but he eventually accepted it as a necessary compromise to get the South to ratify the document. [312] He also proposed that apportionment in the House of Representatives be according to each state's free and enslaved population, eventually leading to ...
Though the exact impact of the Force Act on South Carolina's decision to accept the Tariff of 1833 cannot be measured, undoubtedly, it made fighting for nullification a potentially devastating choice. Ultimately, the House passed the Tariff of 1833 by a vote of 119–85 and the Senate passed it by a vote of 29–16. [9]
The Bill of Rights was a compromise, and the Seventh Amendment was part of that compromise. That is why the Bill of Rights was ratified only two years after the original Constitution’s ratification.
The Missouri state Senate on Thursday reached a compromise on new congressional district map lines, ending a deep division among Republicans that created a monthlong impasse in one of the final ...
Republican lawmakers on Thursday voted to make it harder to change the Missouri Constitution amid a campaign to restore abortion rights through a voter-backed constitutional amendment. Currently ...