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The Corner Stone Speech
Alexander H. Stephens
1861
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Benjamin R. Curtis, John McLean & Roger Taney
1857
Speech on the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise
Abraham Lincoln
1854
What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
Frederick Douglass
1852
Speech on the Oregon Bill
John C. Calhoun
1848
Speech to Congress
James Tallmadge Jr.
1819
The Northwest Ordinance
Confederation Congress
1787
The Three-Fifths Clause
Constitutional Convention
1787
Commonwealth v. Nathaniel Jennison
William Cushing
1783
Speech at Springfield, Illinois
Stephen A. Douglas
1858
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