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a protection in the Constitution,
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an explicit protection in the Constitution of slave ownership
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anywhere in the Western Territories of the United States.
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They wanted, in essence, not just the Dred Scott decision,
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Supreme Court case, they wanted a federal--
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they wanted not just the repeal of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
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geographical division,
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not just the Dred Scott case which said
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a person has a right to take slaves anywhere they wish,
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they wanted an explicit federal guarantee
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of the right to slave ownership,
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and they wanted it to be a Constitutional Amendment