The Constitution in the 1850’s
...territories. He believed that the state should decide the state’s own needs including slavery. People used the democratic system by voting but the elections were corrupted either by boycotting, or by Missouri Ruffians, who crossed over to Kansas to vote for a proslavery government in Lecompton. Because the elections failed, thus the democratic process that the constitution created failed, the only option was to pick a side. With the south threatening to secede the week president at the time, Buchanan sided with them suggesting an “exemplary amendment” (Document G) and ignoring the presence of anti-slavery supporters in Kansas by recognizing only the Lecompton government, “forcing slavery down the throat of Free-soilers” (Document F). Compromise had failed in Kansas and popular sovereignty was not working either. The minority refused to give in. Radicals, such as John Brown and William Lloyd Garrison, supported violence or any means possible to get immediate emancipation or slave revolt. Chaos was braking loose in Bleeding Kansas. The Constitution wasn’t good enough and democracy wasn’t answering its call. The political process that once unified the country now tore it into two simply because the issue was too big and democracy wouldn’t fix it. The South before the Fugitive Slave Act and other proslavery benefits where established in the Kansas-Nebraska Act and Clay’s Compromise of 1850, which was log rolled by Douglas, gave the constitution credit for trying to please the. The Framers put in the 3/5th clause and other laws to help the south out and make it more appealing to join the union. However, the south believed more could be done to the constitution to make it more expectable to the south. They wanted to secure slavery in the new territories and wherever else it seemed to be needed. They attempted to get what they want by putting down the constitution. The south only became happy with the way the constitution was written when the north began to dislike it. Slavery was considered inhuman by some, the north mostly, and deemed necessary by others, the south. The South was dependent on slavery to run their economy. Southerners put a lot of money into one slave and needed them to make a profit out of the huge Cotton Kingdom. To them, slaves where property, but to the north they were people and many northerners accepted slaves into their states as free blacks. The Fugitive Slave Act made it so that fugitive slaves were to be returned to their master by slave ki...