Debate

We never got to the Crittenden amendments, so that's what Im going to talk about.

The Crittenden Amendments, proposed by the senator James Crittenden in 1860, were the last proposal for compromise in the country and showed the most promise. Crittenden was the new senator from Kentucky trying to fill the shoes of Henry Clay. The requirements were that the 36 30 line reinstated and to give full protection to all of the territories that supported slavery in the south. Also, new states coming into the United States, whether north or south, could choose to become a slave states or not on their own time. This amendment was based on appeasing the South, and Bailey himself said that these amendments to the Constitution would have postponed the Civil war. And as we mentioned in class, the definition of repression is merely postponing the war. therefore, the Crittenden Amendments would have repressed the war.