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- GLC#
- GLC00267.168
- Type
- Books & pamphlets
- Date
- 1858
- Author/Creator
- Buchanan, James, 1791-1868
- Title
- Message of the President of the United States, communicating a constitution for Kansas as a State, and presenting his views in relation to the affairs of that Territory.
- Place Written
- Washington, District of Columbia
- Pagination
- 1 v. : 32 p. : Height: 22.7 cm, Width: 14.4 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
United States 35th Congress, 1st session, Executive Document no. 21, Senate. Second half of pamphlet includes a proposed constitution for the state of Kansas. Article VII, on slavery, states "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."
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