The Constitution Reader

VII. Crisis of Constitutional Government

Kansas Nebraska Act (excerpt) (PDF) (DOC)

Abraham Lincoln, Speech on the Kansas Nebraska Act (PDF) (DOC)

Republican Party Platform of 1856 (PDF) (DOC)

Dred Scott v. Sandford (excerpt) (PDF) (DOC)

Abraham Lincoln, Speech on the Dred Scott Decision (PDF) (DOC)

Abraham Lincoln, House Divided Speech (PDF) (DOC)

Lincoln-Douglas Debates, First Joint Debate (PDF) (DOC)