...any portion thereof to anv other Territory or State ; and provided, further, that, when admitted as a State, the said Territory or any portion of the...Constitution may prescribe at the time of their admission." Sec. 2—7. Vest the executive and legislative power. 6. Limits the franchise to whites. 7. " The legislative...

...thereof to any other Territory or State ; and provided, further, that, when admitted as a State, tlie said Territory or any portion of the same shall be...Constitution may prescribe at the time of their admission." Sec. 2-7. Vest the executive and legislative power. 6. Limits the franchise to whites. 7. " The legislative...

...Congress has already prescribed that, when the Territory of Kan03 shall be admitted as a State, it ' shall be received into the Union with or without Slavery, as their Constitution may prescribe it the time of their admission.1 *"A difference of opinion has arisen in regard to the point of time...

...The familiar Soule clause declared that "when admitted as a state or states, the said territory . . . shall be received into the Union, with or without slavery as their constitutions may prescribe." There was also the same provision for easy access to the Supreme Court...

...Mexico-Utah legislation of 1850: that "when admitted as a State or States, the said territory . . . shall be received into the Union, with or without...constitution may prescribe at the time of their admission." There was to be no explicit mention of the Missouri Compromise, and Douglas appeared to assume that...

...territories of Kansas and Nebraska and stipulated that any states formed out of those territories could enter the Union with or without slavery, "as their constitution may prescribe at the time of their admission." In the meantime, the inhabitants themselves could determine the status of slavery in the newly created...

...temporary government by the name of the Territory of Kansas, and when admitted as a State or States, the said Territory, or any portion of the same, shall-...constitution may prescribe at the time of their admission." Kansas received its name from the Kansas River and Nebraska was named for the Nebraska, or Platte River....

...final form the legislation organizing Utah and New Mexico specified that when admitted as states "they shall be received into the Union, with or without...constitution may prescribe at the time of their admission." This said nothing about slavery during the territorial stage. The omission was deliberate. Congress...

...final form the legislation organizing Utah and New Mexico specified that when admitted as states "they shall be received into the Union, with or without...constitution may prescribe at the time of their admission." This said nothing about slavery during the territorial stage. The omission was deliberate. Congress...

...chap. 7. 4 The language proposed in the initial bill stated that the new territory would be admitted to the union "with or without slavery, as their constitution may prescribe at the time of their admission." Several days later the bill was amended to read "that all questions pertaining to slavery . . . are...