" It was defeated in two referenda largely due to that Seventh article, which is entitled after the controversial issue that it addresses, "Slavery."
Nehemiah Abbot's March twenty-second speech regarding this article was a key point in the debate about it and the proposer of a namesake compromise regarding it later ran with Winfield Scott Hancock on 1880's Hancock/English ticket. Robert Walker resigned over the legitimacy of this document, the first Section of the seventh Article of which states that "the right of property is... higher than... any sanction." It was defeated in two referenda largely due to that Seventh article, which is entitled after the controversial issue that it addresses, "Slavery." Predecessor to the Wyandotte and Topeka documents of the same type, it drew the ire of Stephen A. Douglass. FTP, name this pro-slavery constitution drafted in 1857 for Kansas.
Nehemiah Abbot's March twenty-second speech regarding this article was a key point in the debate about it and the proposer of a namesake compromise regarding it later ran with Winfield Scott Hancock on 1880's Hancock/English ticket.
the Lecompton Constitution