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Dred Scott and his wife Harriet Scott each sued for freedom in St Louis after the death of their master based on their having been held in a free territory (the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase from which slavery was excluded under the terms of the Missouri Compromise) (Later the two cases were combined under Dred Scott's name.) Scott filed suit for freedom in 1846 and went through two state trials the first denying and the second granting freedom to the couple (and by extension their two daughters who had also been held illegally in free territories) for 28 years Missouri state precedent had generally respected laws of neighboring free states and territories ruling for freedom in such transit cases where slaves had been held illegally in free territory But in the Dred Scott case the State Supreme Court ruled against the slaves saying that "times were not what they once were".[citation needed]. . The principal organized bodies to advocate abolition and anti-slavery reforms in the north were the Pennsylvania Abolition Society and the New York Manumission Society Before the 1830s the antislavery groups called for gradual emancipation. By the late 1820s under the impulse of religious evangelicals the sense emerged that owning slaves was a sin and the owner had to immediately free himself from this grave sin by emancipation, Mexican Army Smaller states and bigger states, San Salvador El Salvador (2018).

Congress reflects us in all our strengths and all our weaknesses it reflects our regional idiosyncrasies our ethnic religious and racial diversity our multitude of professions and our shadings of opinion on everything from the value of war to the war over values Congress is the government's most representative body . Congress is essentially charged with reconciling our many points of view on the great public policy issues of the day. .