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	Lecompton, Kansas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lecompton played a major historical role as the seat of the pro-slavery Kansas faction during Bleeding Kansas in the 1850s and embraces that history today.
		Lecompton was founded in 1854 and platted on a bluff on the south bank of the Kansas River.
		The constitution was rejected after intense national debate and was one of the prime topics of the Lincoln-Douglas debates.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lecompton,_Kansas (930 words)

	Lecompton Constitution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Lecompton Constitution was one of four proposed Kansas state constitutions.
		The Lecompton Constitutional Convention was held on September, 1857 in Lecompton, Kansas Territory.
		Despite the proviso, the Constitution was rejected by Kansans, and Kansas was admitted to the Union as a free state in 1861.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lecompton_Constitution (422 words)

	Constitution Hall, History
		The purpose of the convention was to draft a constitution to gain statehood for Kansas.
		Eventually the Lecompton Constitution was defeated at the national level.
		In 1858 the assembly was moved from the proslavery capital of Lecompton to the free-state town of Lawrence.
	www.kshs.org /places/constitution/history.htm (349 words)

	Territorial History, Part 54
		The bill to admit Kansas as a State under the Lecompton constitution failed, and the English bill finally passed Congress, under the provisions of which the constitution was again submitted to a vote of the people on the 4th of August, 1858, with the result of 1.788 votes in its favor and 11,300 against it.
		The constitutional convention, which framed the Leavenworth constitution, was provided for by an act of the Territorial Legislature passed in February, 1858, during the pendency of the Lecompton constitution in Congress.
		That constitution had been framed by a convention elected without any authority of law; the total vote upon its adoption had been only 1,778, while two years had elapsed since it was framed and adopted, and meantime a large increase in the population had taken place.
	www.kancoll.org /books/cutler/terrhist/terrhist-p54.html (3624 words)

	Fifth Joint Debate at Galesburg. Mr. Douglas's Speech. Lincoln, Abraham. 1897. Political Debates Between Lincoln and ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		When the Lecompton Constitution was defeated, the question arose in the minds of those who had advocated it what they should next resort to in order to carry out their views.
		It provided, in substance, that the Lecompton Constitution should be sent back to the people of Kansas for their adoption or rejection, at an election which was held in August last, and in case they refused admission under it, that Kansas should be kept out of the Union until she had 93,420 inhabitants.
		I repeat that I opposed the Lecompton Constitution because it was not the act and deed of the people of Kansas, and did not embody their will.
	www.bonus.com /contour/bartlettqu/http@@/www.bartleby.com/251/51.html (4214 words)

	Kansas and Kansans p.935-945
		The Lecompton Constitution, drawn in 1857, was the instrument by which the pro-slavery advocates intended to permanently fasten slavery upon the real settlers of Kansas.
		The Leavenworth Constitution, drawn in 1858, was used as a counter to prevent the passage of the Lecompton Constitution.
		This election was held December 15, 1855, and the constitution adopted by a vote of 1,731 to 46.
	skyways.lib.ks.us /kansas/genweb/archives/1918ks/v2/935.html (4199 words)

	Chapter 11 Summary of Kenneth Stampp's "America in 1857" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Buchanan said the Lecompton convention was not required by the Kansas-Nebraska Act to submit the constitution for ratification by the people, and he denied that the requirement that the people determine "domestic institutions" included the right to accept or reject the entire constitution.
		Buchanan dismissed the Lecompton constitution provision that slaveholders then in the territory be protected even if slavery were to be rejected as unimportant, claiming that the Dred Scott decision protected the slaveholders in the territory.
		On December 9, Douglas decried the behavior of the Lecompton convention, protesting the administration's support of "a small minority of the people of Kansas to defraud the majority." The token effort to allow the people to vote only on the slavery clause, he said, was not sufficient.
	carbon.cudenver.edu /~rpekarek/Stampp11.html (505 words)

	Page 31. Lincoln, Abraham. 1897. Political Debates Between Lincoln and Douglas
		The Lecompton Constitution connects itself with this question, for it is in this matter of the Lecompton Constitution, that our friend Judge Douglas claims such vast credit.
		I agree that in opposing the Lecompton Constitution, so far as I can perceive, he was right.
		The argument that he makes, why that Constitution should not be adopted, that the people were not fairly represented nor allowed to vote, I pointed out in a speech a year ago, which I hold in my hand now, that no fair chance was to be given to the people.
	www.bartleby.com /251/pages/page31.html (431 words)

	Speech of Senator Douglas. Lincoln, Abraham. 1897. Political Debates Between Lincoln and Douglas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		They agreed to refer the Constitution back to the people of Kansas, thus conceding the correctness of the principle for which I had contended, and granting all I had desired, provided the mode of that reference and the mode of submission to the people had been just, fair and equal.
		The Constitution of the United States has said that this Government shall be divided into three separate and distinct branches, the executive, the legislative and the judicial, and of course each one is supreme and independent of the other within the circle of its own powers.
		I am bound, as a good citizen, to sustain the constituted authorities, and to resist, discourage, and beat down, by all lawful and peaceful means, all attempts at exciting mobs, or violence, or any other revolutionary proceedings against the Constitution and the constituted authorities of the country.
	www.bonus.com /contour/bartlettqu/http@@/www.bartleby.com/251/1004.html (8275 words)

	Lecompton Constitution- 1857
		SECTION I. The right of property is before and higher than any constitutional sanction, and the right of the owner of a slave to such slave and its increase is the same, and as inviolable as the right of the owner of any property whatever.
		This constitution shall be submitted to the Congress of the United States at its next ensuing session.
		Before this constitution shall be sent to Congress, asking for admission into the Union as a State, it shall be submitted to all the white male inhabitants of this Territory, for approval or disapproval, as follows:.
	www.multied.com /documents/Lecompton.html (302 words)

	Chapter 12 Summary of Kenneth Stampp's "America in 1857" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the House, the Lecompton constitution proposal was given to a select committee headed by Thomas L. Harris (anti-Lecompton) and Alexander H.
		The English bill "enabled Kansans indirectly to vote on the Lecompton constitution while seeming to be voting on something else." That "something else" was a federal land grant, which to some critics appeared to be a bribe.
		Kansans would be voting on whether to accept the Lecompton constitution with this reduced grant, but the ballot would emphasize the grant, not slavery, and Kansas would not be admitted to the Union except as a slave state.
	carbon.cudenver.edu /~rpekarek/Stampp12.html (781 words)

	Territorial History, Part 55
		Thus the Constitution was returned to the people of Kansas with the infamous proposition to sell their principles for a most munificent bribe, or, scorning the proposition, to be debarred from further efforts for a State Government until the lapse of years might bring relief.
		The extent of the corruption and bribery attending the efforts, first to force the Constitution through Congress, and failing in that, to secure the passage of the not less reprehensible and shameless English bill, were not known at the time of its passage.
		On that day the Lecompton Constitution and the English bill were buried forever under an avalanche of popular indignation and contempt.
	www.kancoll.org /books/cutler/terrhist/terrhist-p55.html (1826 words)

	James Buchanan, Page 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		When only a pro-slavery constitution was presented to voters, the anti-slavery faction again refused to participate in the election and the pro-slavery constitution was sent to Buchanan for congressional approval.
		Meanwhile, the territorial legislature in Kansas called for a referendum on the entire constitution and, with anti-slavery partisans participating this time, the result was a large majority against the Lecompton Constitution.
		He hoped that a constitutional convention might be called to draft amendments to the federal Constitution that would settle the slavery issue but believed that as president he did not possess the power to call such a convention without the support of Congress.
	www.phmc.state.pa.us /ppet/buchanan/page4.asp?secid=31 (1073 words)

	Page 201. Lincoln, Abraham. 1897. Political Debates Between Lincoln and Douglas
		Then, when you come to look into the Lecompton Constitution, you find the same doctrine incorporated in it which was put forth editorically in the Union.
		Then in the schedule is a provision that the Constitution may be amended after 1864 by a two-thirds vote.
		It will be seen by these clauses in the Lecompton Constitution that they are identical in spirit with this authoritative article in the Washington Union of the day previous to its indorsement of the Constitution.
	www.bartleby.com /251/pages/page201.html (285 words)

	Constitution -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		In some cases, such as the United States, the constitution is a specific written document; in others, such as the United Kingdom, it is a collection of documents, statutes, and traditional practices that are generally accepted as governing political matters.
		Moreover, it was, for the first time in history, a constitution that specifically limited the powers that the federal government would be able to exercise over its citizens.
		The British constitution is formed partly by statutes, or legislative enactments of Parliament; partly by common law, based on decisions of courts of law; and partly by practices and precepts, which are known as conventions.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9026011?source=RSSOTD (770 words)

	Lecompton, Kansas - brought to you by LASR - Leisure And Sport Review
		It was originally called "Bald Eagle," but was later changed to Lecompton in honor of S.D. Lecompton, a federal judge of the territory.
		The population of Lecompton reached 4,000 and was dubbed the "Wall Street of the West" by settlers, politicians and land speculators.
		Lecompton has put aside its turbulent past and is now a delightfully quiet, pretty place and the people are proud of their part in the history of Kansas and the nation.
	www.lasr.net /pages/city.php?City_ID=KS0301017 (322 words)

	Bleeding Kansas site photos
		The constitution was rejected after intense national debate that contributed to the coming of the Civil War.
		In part, the Lecompton Constitution failed because the anti-slavery party won control of the Territorial Legislature in the election of 1857.
		Lecompton, however, had been branded as a pro-slavery town and the victorious antislavery forces chose Topeka as the capital when Kansas became a state in 1861.
	www.civilwaralbum.com /misc/kansas_bld1.htm (1064 words)

	Lecompton \| visitlawrence.com
		As the population of Lecompton reached 4,000, settlers, politicians and land speculators dubbed it the "Wall Street of the West." There were seven four-horse drawn stages and express lines to Lecompton.
		Constitution Hall was the location of some of the most significant events in territorial Kansas' economic and political history.
		In 1857, delegates to the Lecompton Constitutional Convention met upstairs in Constitution Hall to write the famous Lecompton Constitution, which, if approved by the U.S. Congress, would have admitted Kansas to the Union as a slave state.
	www.visitlawrence.com /visitor/daytrips/lecompton (360 words)

	MSN Encarta - James Buchanan
		When the proslavery body drafted its so-called Lecompton Constitution and submitted it to Congress for statehood in 1857, Buchanan pressed for its acceptance, even after the constitution failed a popular vote in Kansas.
		The vote was taken, the constitution was rejected again, and Kansas remained a territory for the time being.
		A fourth party, the Constitutional Union Party, nominated John Bell of Tennessee on a platform of simply preserving the Union.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761560262_4/James_Buchanan.html (1342 words)

	National Historic Landmarks Program (NHL)
		Constitution Hall was the meeting place for the second Kansas territorial legislature in 1857.
		The Lecompton Constitution of 1857, a pro-slavery document drafted in Lecompton (the territorial capital of Kansas and also the headquarters of pro-slavery elements in the territory), was supported by President Buchanan but rejected by Congress and the people of Kansas.
		The Lecomption Constitution served to inflame the growing sectional dispute which was shortly to burst into Civil War.
	tps.cr.nps.gov /nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=1092&ResourceType=Building (183 words)

	Lecompton on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		LECOMPTON [Lecompton], small town, Douglas co., NE Kans., on the Kansas River between Lawrence and Topeka.
		The pro-slavery Lecompton Constitution was formulated (Sept., 1857) there, and was ratified (Dec., 1857) after an election in which voters were given a choice only between limited or unlimited slavery; free state men refused to cast their ballots.
		President James Buchanan urged Congress to admit Kansas as a slave state under the Lecompton Constitution, but Stephen A. Douglas and his followers broke with the pro-slavery Democrats, and the bill could not pass the House.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/L/Lecompto.asp (278 words)

	KANSAS - LoveToKnow Article on KANSAS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		covernment.The constitution is that adopted at Wyandotte on the 2gth of July 1859 and ratified by the people on the 4th of October 1859; it came into operation on the 29th of January 1861, and was amended in 1861, 1864, 1867, 1873, 1875, 1876, 1880, 1888, 1900, 1902, 1904 and 1906.
		A constitutional convention to revise or amend the constitution may be called in the same manner.
		On the constitutional convention rested, then, all hope of saving Kansas for slavery; and that would be impossible if they should submit their handiwork to the people.
	www.1911ency.org /K/KA/KANSAS.htm (7477 words)

	Stephen A. Douglas
		Elections for the Lecompton delegates had been riddled with fraud, and the convention provided no means for a popular referendum on the constitution as a whole.
		Voters were given only the single option of endorsing the constitution "with slavery" or "without slavery." Nonetheless, President Buchanan proposed that Kansas be admitted under the terms of the Lecompton constitution.
		Since the Lecompton constitution was not a full and free expression of the will of the people of Kansas, said Douglas, it could not be accepted, no matter what position was taken on slavery.
	www.lib.uchicago.edu /e/spcl/excat/douglas5.html (965 words)

	Digital History
		Recognizing that a proslavery constitution would be defeated in a fair election, proslavery delegates offered voters a referendum on whether they preferred "the constitution with slavery" or "the constitution without slavery." In either case, however, the constitution guaranteed property rights in slaves.
		Free soilers boycotted the election and as a result "the constitution with slavery" was approved by a 6000-vote margin.
		President James Buchanan--recognizing the Democratic party's dependence on southern support--accepted the proslavery Lecompton constitution as a satisfactory application of the principle of popular sovereignty.
	www.digitalhistory.uh.edu /documents/documents_p2.cfm?doc=28 (640 words)

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		My speech against the Lecompton fraud was made on the 9th of December, while the vote on the slavery clause in that Constitution was not taken until the 21st of the same month, nearly two weeks after.
		My objection to the Lecompton contrivance was, that it undertook to put a Constitution on the people of Kansas against their will, in opposition to their wishes, and thus violated the great principle upon which all our institutions rest.
		The Constitution of the United States has provided that the powers of government (and the Constitution of each State has the same provision) shall be divided into three departments-executive, legislative, and judicial.
	www.founding.com /library/lbody.cfm?id=340&parent=65 (3602 words)

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