The Wilmot Proviso pulled the nation apart because the southerners and northerners did not know whether to allow slavery in Mexico and the Wilmot Proviso automatically banned slavery in that region. ... Another was to allow the New Mexico and Utah territories to allow whether they wanted to have slavery.
Small subsistence farmers (non slaveholding)
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Answer:
1. Civil liberties.
Explanation:
In the First Amendment of the Constitution , the rights of the people are freedom to worship, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly and the right to petition the government for a redress of grievances. No government can promote or enforce laws that violate those principles. Besides, the Declaration of Independece speaks of "unalienable rights" such as the right to life, right to liberty and right to the pursuit of happiness.
