Lincoln–Douglas debates
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Lincoln–Douglas debates
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The Lincoln–Douglas debates were a series of seven debates in 1858 between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican Party candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, and incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate. Until the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which provides that senators shall be elected by the people of their states, was ratified in 1913, senators were elected by their respective state legislatures, so Lincoln and Douglas were trying
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Series of political debates in Illinois, US (1858)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%E2%80%93Douglas_debates
date created:
2004-01-30T05:18:13Z
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2024-09-06T22:42:56Z
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