The Compromise of 1850 was actually a terrible deal for the slave states, who among other things immediately lost the 50/50 split in the Senate, when they were already outnumbered in the House & the Electoral College.pic.twitter.com/2GWtsrfHfP
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The really incendiary flashpoints on slavery were the areas where just leaving each state to itself proved impossible: fugitive slaves, the territories, wars of expansion, the right of free speech in Congress and through the mails. "States rights" alone couldn't answer those Qs.
Which is related to the fact that we do not actually have - and haven't had, since 1786 - a states' rights system of government. We have a federalist system, in which states have powers, but they are limited when they collide with those of other states.
Didn't the dred Scott decision at least reinforce the fugitive slave law
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