On the recordAugust 24, 1855
It was passed in violence, because it could not have passed at all but for the votes of many members in violence of the known will of their constituents.
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In a letter to his friend Joshua Speed, Lincoln criticized the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act as a violation of constituents' will.
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