James Buchanan: Inaugural Address - Milestone Documents

James Buchanan: Inaugural Address

( 1857 ) Commentary by Brooks D. Simpson, Arizona State University

Glossary

consideration example
our Confederacy the United States
popular sovereignty the principle that citizens in the territories had the right to decide for themselves, on a state-by-state basis, whether to allow slavery in their borders
Providence God’s guidance and love
suffer allow

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