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Waxing powerful, it was able, after a severe struggle, to impose terms upon the National Government, compelling it to receive Missouri into the Union with a Slaveholding Constitution.
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Sumner recounts how the Slave Power forced the National Government to accept Missouri with a slaveholding constitution.
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