A body of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is acknowledged to be governed.
The developments made in the Compromise of 1850 was the Fugitive-Slave law and the ban on the slave trade in the nation's capital. The Fugitive-Slave law was declared for runaway and captured slaves to be returned to their respective owners.
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania cannot really trust Russia (the leader of the Commonwealth of Independent States) as Russia forcibly made those states part of the Soviet Union and and did allow for democracy there. That's why they don't want to be part of CIS. They can afford not to be due to their location in Europe, next to western Europe, so then can claim help from western Europe in case of Russian Invasion (unlike Kazakhstan for example).
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Pretty sure it's #1 - they wanted to create an independent republic.
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