Stephen Douglas of Illinois
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Question 0100201:
Which of the following was a statement made by Stephen Douglas during the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates?
(A) "the people of a territory can, by lawful means, exclude slavery from their limits prior to the formation of a state constitution"
(B) "a house divided against itself cannot stand"
(C) "I believe this Government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free"
(D) "this is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave"
(E) "now what is ... popular sovereignty? It is, as a principle, no other than that, if one man chooses to make a slave of another man, neither that other man nor anybody else has a right to object"
Which of the following was a statement made by Stephen Douglas during the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates?
(A) "the people of a territory can, by lawful means, exclude slavery from their limits prior to the formation of a state constitution"
(B) "a house divided against itself cannot stand"
(C) "I believe this Government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free"
(D) "this is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave"
(E) "now what is ... popular sovereignty? It is, as a principle, no other than that, if one man chooses to make a slave of another man, neither that other man nor anybody else has a right to object"