According to the Kansas-Nebraska Act, territories above the 36°30' N line would be free, while those below the line would allow slavery. people in each territory would vote on whether to allow slavery. Kansas and Nebraska would enter the Union as slave states. Kansas and Nebraska would enter the Union as free states.

these the citzens and goverment come to terms some of the amendments gave the states more power then the goverment and some protocted americans rights

special interest groups must step back and let the process work itself out a representative can amend it at several points in the congressional staffers must do homework and report to the floor on what they 've learned

i confess that there are several parts of this constitution which i do not at present approve, but i am not sure i shall never approve them: for having lived long, i have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which i once thought right, but found to be otherwise. it is therefore that the older i grow, the more apt i am to doubt my own judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment of others.