... the states. As a result Lincoln opposed any further extension of slavery in new federal territories and thought that slavery would gradually go extinct arguing that it could artificially inflate the power of the Democratic Party. The three-fifths clause of the Constitution allowed five slaves to account for three persons for purposes of determining the number of congressional seats in each ... and bad policy; but that the promulgation of abolition doctrines tends rather to increase than to abate it evils. They believe that the Congress of the United States has no power, under the consti...

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