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The Lecompton Constitution was a proposed Kansas Territory constitution that allowed voters to decide whether Kansas...

The Lecompton Constitution was a proposed Kansas Territory constitution that allowed voters to decide whether Kansas would allow slave ownership, but protected the owners of slaves already in the territory from losing their slaves.

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Lecompton Constitution, (1857), instrument framed in Lecompton, Kan., by Southern pro-slavery advocates of Kansas statehood. It contained clauses protecting slaveholding and a bill of rights excluding free blacks, and it added to the frictions leading up to the U.S. Civil War.

Rahul Sunny answered 2 years ago
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