Saeid Badie, DDS

. . . ; . Nueces Strip Nevertheless the Supreme Court has treated campaign contributions as a free speech issue. Some see money as a good influence in politics since it "enables candidates to communicate with voters". Few members retire from Congress without complaining about how much it costs to campaign for reelection. Critics contend that members of Congress are more likely to attend to the needs of heavy campaign contributors than to ordinary citizens, Daniel Carroll Maryland 2 Yes Yes The general solution that was adopted by the Compromise of 1850 was to transfer a considerable part of the territory claimed by Texas state to the federal government; to organize two new territories formally the Territory of New Mexico and the Territory of Utah which expressly would be allowed to locally determine whether they would become slave or free territories to add another free state to the Union (California) to adopt a severe measure to recover slaves who had escaped to a free state or free territory (the Fugitive Slave Law); and to abolish the slave trade in the District of Columbia a key provision of each of the laws respectively organizing the Territory of New Mexico and the Territory of Utah was that slavery would be decided by local option called popular sovereignty That was an important repudiation of the idea behind the failure to prohibit slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico However the admission of California as a free state meant that southerners were giving up their goal of a coast-to-coast belt of slave states.

. Taylor died in July 1850 and was succeeded by Vice President Fillmore who had privately come to support Clay's proposal the various bills were initially combined into one "omnibus" bill Despite Clay's efforts it failed in a crucial vote on July 31 opposed by southern Democrats and by northern Whigs He announced on the Senate floor the next day that he intended to pass each individual part of the bill the 73-year-old Clay however was physically exhausted as the effects of tuberculosis which would eventually kill him began to take their toll Clay left the Senate to recuperate in Newport Rhode Island and Senator Stephen A Douglas took the lead in attempting to pass Clay's proposals through the Senate.