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Lecompton
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Lecompton

City in northeastern Kansas, between Lawrence and Topeka; population (1990) 600. Primarily a residential suburb, it has some agriculture-related commerce.

History

It was the capital of the Kansas Territory from 1855 to 1858. The proslavery Lecompton Constitution, written here in 1857, was defeated by the electorate in 1858.



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skills against the notorious Lecompton constitution that would have made Kansas a slave state.
Jim Lane: Scoundrel, Statesman, Kansan by Etcheson, Nicole / Journal of Southern History
When I saw that article in the Union of the 17th of November, followed by the glorification of the Lecompton Constitution on the 18th of November, and this clause in the [Lecompton] Constitution asserting the doctrine that a State has no right to prohibit slavery within its limits, I saw that there was a fatal blow being struck at the sovereignty of the States of this Union.
Dred Scott revisited by Jaffa, Harry V. / Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy
Kansas was offered some millions of acres of public lands in exchange for accepting the Lecompton Constitution.
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