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Wilmot Proviso| In US history, proposed amendment for the prohibition of slavery in any territory acquired by federal funds, first put to Congress by the Democrat David Wilmot in 1846. Although the amendment was never passed, it served as one of the basic principles for the origin of the Republican Party. |
| Wilmot added his antislavery amendment to a bill, proposed by US president James K Polk, that sought to appropriate $2 million to negotiate a peace settlement with Mexico during the Mexican War (1846–48). Although the House of Representatives approved the amendment the following year, the heavily southern Senate defeated it. The amendment fuelled the debate over the question of slavery in the new territories, but was continually defeated over the years. Slavery was finally banned in all US territories under the Emancipation Proclamation (1862), and enshrined in the US Constitution in 1865 with the Thirteenth Amendment (see Amendment, Thirteenth). |
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| Issues covered include the Bill of Rights, the Missouri Compromise, Wilmot Proviso, the Homestead Act, the 14th and 19th amendments, the Treaty of Paris and American policy regarding the Philippines, the League of Nations, the Fair Labor Standards Act, McCarthyism, the Civil Rights Acts of 1875 and 1964, the War Powers Resolution of 1973, the North American Free Trade Agreement, and the Iraq War Resolution. The Wilmot Proviso is mentioned only to assert (wrongly) that it was intended to "sustain the integrity of the Missouri Compromise. His survey is both theoretical and historic and he examines the politics of the 1840s to the 1860s, in particular, the Wilmot Proviso (regarding a prohibition of slavery in the territories) and the election of Lincoln in 1860 (and the role of the Electoral College) because these cases were cited by William Riker, to whose arguments this book is an answer. |
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