<h3>According to the Declaration of Independence, the government gets its power from the people it governs. The exact language it uses in the second paragraph is "deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed." This means that the people agree to be governed.</h3>
The North was the side to ban slavery. The Missouri Compromise, as set into place by Thomas Jefferson split the slave-permitting south from the abolitionist North.
Instead, on September 28, Congress directed the state legislatures to call ratification conventions in each state. Article VII stipulated that nine states had to ratify the Constitution for it to go into effect.