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Douglas defended his Kansas Nebraska Act, which replaced the Missouri Compromise ban on slavery in the Louisiana Purchase territory north and west of Missouri with popular sovereignty, which allowed residents of territories such as the Kansas to vote either for or against slavery.
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Recently, Rand's position has also been defended by such writers as Tara Smith, Tibor Machan, Allan Gotthelf, David Kelley, Douglas Rasmussen, Nathaniel Branden, Harry Binswanger, Andrew Bernstein, and Craig Biddle.
Douglas Jardine always defended his tactics and in the book he wrote about the tour, In Quest of the Ashes, described allegations that the England bowlers directed their attack with the intention of causing physical harm as stupid and patently untruthful.
Faced with harsh criticism from a nostalgic public, including Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Zadora defended her family's actions, stating that the house was allegedly in a poor state of repair and was infested by termites.
Though the championship was unsanctioned in storyline, it was defended at ECW shows until Douglas was healthy, at which time Taz defeated him for the World Heavyweight Title.
He defended his position even when in the minority, as exemplified in his vigorous minority report as a member of the Committee on Territories, chaired by Stephen A. Douglas.
In response, the England captain Douglas Jardine defended his team and his leading fast bowler Harold Larwood.
Frustrated by his inability to challenge for the ECW World Heavyweight Championship due to Champion Shane Douglas ' injury and refusal to face him, Taz created and defended his own World title, billing himself as the " real " World champion.
Helen Gahagan Douglas vigorously defended the section, which she denied would " give away the secret of the bomb ".
While at Covington and Burling, he represented United States Senator John Glenn in the Keating Five scandal and defended United States Senator Chuck Robb against charges of surreptitiously and unlawfully recording, and disseminating, some private conversations of a political rival, Governor of Virginia Douglas Wilder.
The island of Leyte was defended by about 20, 000 Japanese ; American General Douglas MacArthur thought that the occupation of Leyte would be only a prelude to the major engagement on Luzon.
Douglas and Kansas
Some eastern Republicans even favored the reelection of Douglas for the Senate in 1858, since he had led the opposition to the Lecompton Constitution, which would have admitted Kansas as a slave state.
Douglas ( and Atchison ) had assumed that Nebraska would be settled by Free-State men from Iowa and Illinois, and Kansas by pro-slavery Missourians and other Southerners, thus preserving the numerical balance between free states and slave states.
Sen. Stephen A. Douglas and former Illinois Congressman Abraham Lincoln aired their disagreement over the Kansas – Nebraska Act in three public speeches during September and October 1854.
The Douglas County, Kansas | Douglas County Courthouse in downtown Lawrence, Kansas, the town where much of " The Day After " takes place.
The Wakarusa River, which, flowing east and northeast, empties into the Kansas River in the northeastern part of Douglas County.
Douglas County ( county code DG ) is a county located in northeast Kansas, in the Central United States.
Baldwin City is a city in Douglas County, Kansas, United States about south of Lawrence and west of Gardner.
Category: Populated places in Douglas County, Kansas
Eudora is a city in Douglas County, Kansas, United States.
Category: Populated places in Douglas County, Kansas
Lecompton is a city in Douglas County, Kansas, United States.
Category: Populated places in Douglas County, Kansas
in 1910 the Kansas City, Ozark and Southern Railroad was extended from Mansfield south to Ava to service the growing agricultural and lumbering industries of Douglas County.
Category: Education in Douglas County, Kansas
Category: Buildings and structures in Douglas County, Kansas
After high school, Douglas played basketball for the Coffeyville Community College Red Ravens in Coffeyville, Kansas from 1977 to 1978 where the seventeen year old was a 6 feet 0 inch Power forward.
The parent company moved its operations to Kansas in 1931, and so Jack, along with Donald Douglas, established a " Northrop Corporation " located in El Segundo, California, which produced several successful designs, including the Northrop Gamma and Northrop Delta.
When more than one state is involved, the name of the state comes before the list of counties ; for example, on KID-77 in Kansas City, it runs: " in Missouri: Cass, Clay, Jackson, Johnson, Lafayette, Platte, and Ray ; and in Kansas: Johnson, Leavenworth, Linn, Miami, Wyandotte, and Douglas.
Douglas defeated the proslavery Lecompton Constitution for Kansas because the majority of Kansans were antislavery, and Douglas ' popular sovereignty doctrine would allow the majority to vote slavery up or down as they chose.
Douglas and Nebraska
* Strong, Douglas H. Dreamers & Defenders: American Conservationists ( 1971 ; Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1988 ) ISBN 0-8032-9156-6
In 1845 Douglas, serving in his first term in the United States House of Representatives, had submitted an unsuccessful plan to formally organize the Nebraska Territory as the first step in building a railroad with its eastern terminus in Chicago.
Iowa Sen. Augustus C. Dodge immediately reintroduced the same legislation to organize Nebraska that had stalled in the previous session ; it was referred to Douglas ’ s committee on December 14.
Douglas, hoping to achieve the support of the Southerners, publicly announced that the same principle that had been established in the Compromise of 1850 should apply in Nebraska.
Trails throughout the area are included in comprehensive plans for the city of Omaha, the Omaha metropolitan area, Douglas County, and long-distance coordinated plans between the municipalities of southeast Nebraska.
Douglas Brian " Pete " Peterson ( born June 26, 1935, Omaha, Nebraska ) was a U. S. Air Force pilot who spent over six years as a prisoner of the North Vietnamese Army after his plane was shot down during the Vietnam War.
Douglas County is a county located in the U. S. state of Nebraska.
In the Nebraska license plate system, Douglas County was represented by the prefix " 1 " ( as it had the largest number of vehicles registered in the county when the license plate system was established in 1922 ).
Bennington is a city in Douglas County, Nebraska, United States.
Boys Town is a village in Douglas County, Nebraska, United States.
Category: Populated places in Douglas County, Nebraska
Ralston is a city in Douglas County, Nebraska, United States.
Category: Populated places in Douglas County, Nebraska
Valley is a city in Douglas County, Nebraska, United States.
Category: Populated places in Douglas County, Nebraska
Waterloo is a village in Douglas County, Nebraska, United States.
Category: Populated places in Douglas County, Nebraska
Douglas is a village in Otoe County, Nebraska, United States.
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