I maintain that when he says, after the Supreme Court has decided the question, that the people may yet exclude slavery by any means whatever, he does virtually say that it is not a question for the Supreme Court.
In the third debate with Stephen Douglas, Lincoln argued that Douglas's stance on popular sovereignty contradicted the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision.
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