After a series of debates in 1858 that gave national visibility to his opposition to the expansion of slavery, Lincoln lost a Senate race to his arch-rival, Stephen A. Douglas.

Senior Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois had incorporated popular sovereignty into the Act.

On November 6, 1860, Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States, beating Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, John C. Breckinridge of the Southern Democrats, and John Bell of the new Constitutional Union Party.

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In an attempt to blunt that reaction and reunite the Democratic party, presidential hopeful Stephen A. Douglas developed the Freeport Doctrine of popular sovereignty in the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858.

In the 1850s Chicago gained national political prominence as the home of Senator Stephen Douglas, the champion of the Kansas-Nebraska Act and " popular sovereignty " approach to the issue of the spread of slavery.

At Atchison's request, Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois introduced the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which embodied this idea, in November 1853.

He fiercely criticized northern congressmen and senators, in particular Stephen Douglas, who seemed to cater to the slave faction in exchange for southern support.

The act was designed by Democratic Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois.

The solution was a bill proposed in January 1854 by Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois.

Stephen A. Douglas -- " The great principle of self government is at stake, and surely the people of this country are never going to decide that the principle upon which our whole republican system rests is vicious and wrong.

Franklin Pierce also holds down the giant's beard as Stephen A. Douglas shoves a black man down his throat.

The Democrats held large majorities in each house, and Stephen Douglas, " a ferocious fighter, the fiercest, most ruthless, and most unscrupulous that Congress had perhaps ever known " led a tightly disciplined party.

The debate in the senate concluded on March 4, 1854, when Stephen Douglas, beginning near midnight on March 3, made a five-and-a-half-hour speech.

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.

* Huston, James L. Stephen A. Douglas and the dilemmas of democratic equality ( 2007 )

Robert W. Stephen A. Douglas ( 1973 ) ISBN 0-19-501620-3

Other honorary alumni award-winning filmmaker include Costa-Gavras, skier Nancy Greene Raine, Milton Wong, Doris Shadbolt, dancer and choreographer Judith Marcuse, economist Jeffrey Sachs, Peter Gzowski, Douglas Coupland, Romeo Dallaire, Canadian businessman Stephen Jarislowsky, Iain Baxter, American agriculturalist Cary Fowler, Martha Piper, Sarah McLachlan, and Rick Hansen.

There the four-year-old Marshall met Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln and sat on the lap of whichever candidate was not speaking.

* Stephen Douglas, politician and 1860 presidential runner-up.

In 1860, he favored the Democratic presidential candidate Stephen A. Douglas over Abraham Lincoln, and Lincoln over the alternate Democratic candidate, John C. Breckinridge.

* June 3 – Stephen A. Douglas, U. S. Senator from Illinois and Presidential candidate ( b. 1813 )

* November 6 – U. S. presidential election: Abraham Lincoln beats John C. Breckinridge, Stephen A. Douglas, and John Bell and is elected as the 16th President of the United States, the first Republican to hold that office.

* April 23 – Stephen A. Douglas, U. S. Senator from Illinois and Presidential candidate ( d. 1861 )

* Stephen A. Douglas, U. S. senator from Illinois

Stephen Pollard, solicitor representing several of the soldiers, said on 15 June 2010 that Saville had cherry-picked the evidence and did not have justification for his findings.

Stephen Smith, Australian Foreign Minister, rejected any accusations of meddling in Fiji's affairs and said that he was " deeply disappointed " by Fiji's actions.

" Warren said that Stephen Pearl Andrews ' The Science of Society, published in 1852, was the most lucid and complete exposition of Warren's own theories.

For example, Stephen Colbert in a commencement address said,

Stephen Jay Gould said that Agassiz's theories sprang from an initial revulsion in his encounters with African-Americans upon moving to the United States.

After a pontificate of fifteen days, he is said by some to have died of the gout, by others to have been forcibly ejected to make way for Stephen VI, the candidate of the Spoletan party.

In a remake of The Dam Busters by Peter Jackson announced in 2008, Stephen Fry, the writer of the screenplay, said there was " no question in America that you could ever have a dog called the N-word ".

Stephen King said, " Books like I Am Legend were an inspiration to me ".

Spiner said his favorite Data scene takes place in " Descent ", when Data plays poker on the holodeck with a re-creation of the famous physicist Stephen Hawking, played by Hawking himself.

Stephen J. Joyce, grandson of James Joyce, at a 1986 academic conference of Joyceans in Copenhagen, said “ If my grandfather was here, he would have died laughing ... Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man can be picked up, read, and enjoyed by virtually anybody without scholarly guides, theories, and intricate explanations, as can Ulysses, if you forget about all the hue and cry.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper said of the Crown that it " links us all together with the majestic past that takes us back to the Tudors, the Plantagenets, the Magna Carta, habeas corpus, petition of rights, and English common law.

Washington Post film critic Stephen Hunter, a historian of the era, said: " Any image of the American Revolution which represents you Brits as Nazis and us as gentle folk is almost certainly wrong.

Several years ago Stephen Hawking said that there was a fifty-fifty chance that an actual unification of the four fundamental forces – a Theory of Everything – would be achieved.

The Christian views of the time of Terah come from a passage in the New Testament at where Stephen said some things that contrast with Jewish Rabbinical views.

In May 2010, the Australian government expelled an Israeli diplomat over the misuse of Australian passports in the assassination of Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh, which Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said was " not the act of a friend.

Music critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic said, " It was inevitable that the constant grind of touring, writing, promoting, and recording would grate on the Beatles ," leading to the inclusion of several cover versions after the all-original A Hard Day's Night ; the band's visible weariness on the album's cover is noted by narrator Malcolm McDowell during The Compleat Beatles.

This was denied by Stephen Toulouse, writing officially on behalf of Microsoft ,, and also by Microsoft employee Mark Russinovich, who explained what he said were several misunderstandings in Gibson's analysis.

" The Buffalo News report consulted Stephen A. Kent of the University of Alberta, who said that hostility towards critics, including the member's own family, is an ingrained part of Scientology Ethics, according to which the survival of the Church is all-important.

When Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas gave speeches in Greenville in 1858 during a campaign for the United States Senate, Douglas said: " Ladies and gentlemen it gives me great and supreme gratification and pleasure to see this vast concourse of people assembled to hear me upon this my first visit to Old Bond.

Stephen Tobolowsky said that Ramis told him that he felt that the entire progress of Groundhog Day covered 10, 000 years.

In August 2003, Stephen Sondheim responded to a question about his next project that he was interested in something like a theme and variations — possibly a musical adaptation of Groundhog Day ; however, in a 2008 live chat said that " to make a musical of Groundhog Day would be to gild the lily.

The 710-page work followed the pattern of Coke's Institutes of the Lawes of England, but was far more methodical ; James Fitzjames Stephen said that Hale's work " was not only of the highest authority but shows a depth of thought which puts it in quite a different category from Coke's Institute ... is far more of a treatise and far less of an index or mere work of practice ".

Stephen Thomas Erlewine said that " without a forceful lead vocalist like Steve Perry, the group lacks focus and a pop sensibility and its attempts at straight-ahead pop / rock suffer considerably as a result.

While a guest on Quite Frankly with Stephen A. Smith on June 7, 2006, Ali announced that she would be making a world tour, and said that she was looking forward to fighting Ann Wolfe on an October 2006 date.

Norris's candidacy was endorsed by British actor and writer Stephen Fry, who said Ireland " couldn't have a more intelligent passionate and knowledgeable witty or committed President ".