Freeport Doctrine
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title:
Freeport Doctrine
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The Freeport Doctrine was articulated by Stephen A. Douglas at the second of the Lincoln-Douglas debates on August 27, 1858, in Freeport, Illinois. 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. Lincoln tried to force Douglas to choose between the principle of popular sovereignty proposed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and the majority decision of t
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeport_Doctrine
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2004-11-30T13:42:07Z
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2024-09-06T22:41:49Z
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