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The Republican Party platform promised not to interfere with slavery in the states but opposed the further extension of slavery into the territories.
In 1865, Lincoln was instrumental in the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, which made slavery unconstitutional.
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Answer:
The Calvinist Protestants of France
Explanation:
The Edict of Nantes was signed by King Henry IV in 1598, granting French Protestants rights in a Catholic Nation, thus allowing them to own lands and titles. In 1865 Louis XIV revoked the Edict and declared Protestantism illegal, thus starting persecution of protestants in France.
Yes.
Although the constitution does not mention the issue of secession, The Supreme Court has consistently interpreted the Constitution to be an "indestructible" union. The states cannot leave the Union. There is no legal basis a state can point to for unilaterally seceding.
