The enabling act of March 6, 1820, made it clear, however, that fugitive slaves could be apprehended north of the compromise line and returned to their owners. Civil Rights and the Black American ...

But for those of you who still remember your American history — it was more like the Missouri Compromise — except applied to gay people. Like this person, who was very happy. “We’re ...

He ruled that the Missouri Compromise of 1820 forbidding slavery in the western territories had been unconstitutional, that Congress never had the right to forbid or abolish slavery in any territory.

If anything, it will look like the Missouri Compromise -- the 1820 act in which the free states of the North and the slave states of the South tried to work out a formula for expanding their rival ...