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But perhaps it would have been a wiser and bolder course to have persisted in the restriction on Missouri, until it should have terminated in a convention of the states to revise and amend the constitution.
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Quincy suggests that a more decisive stance against slavery in Missouri might have led to a constitutional convention.
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