So long as the number of slave states was the same as or greater than the number of free states, then in the Senate the South had a check on the government. (William C. Davis (historian))

So long as the number of slave states was the same as or greater than the number of free states, then in the Senate the South had a check on the government.

William C. Davis (historian)

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