When this bill was brought to the President, he asked everyone in his Cabinet to write down whether they thought it was Constitutional and what the word Forever meant within its controversial eighth section.
When this bill was brought to the President, he asked everyone in his Cabinet to write down whether they thought it was Constitutional and what the word Forever meant within its controversial eighth section. That eighth and last section was written by Jesse Thomas, one of Illinois' original Senators. A follow up to this law was brokered the following year by Henry Clay. Name this law that separated Maine from Massachusetts and dealt with the slavery issue within the Louisiana Purchase, allowing the formation of a new state Southwest of Illinois.
When this bill was brought to the President, he asked everyone in his Cabinet to write down whether they thought it was Constitutional and what the word Forever meant within its controversial eighth section.
(The) Missouri Compromise (of 1820) (or Compromise of 1820)