Constitutional and political issues in the 1850s in the U.S.
Georgia’s unrest in the 1850s was a result of slavery and its laws. Slavery was the primary origin of conflicts amid states in the middle and late years of the 19th century. Georgia was divergent to slavery and passed strict laws barring the exercise of slavery. This was beheld as a threat to the national security of the United States and steered the formation of political and constitutional problems that resulted in the unrest.
Legal arguments were formed when Georgia allotted laws and endorsed the slave trade in the 1850s and precluded to let the United States Congress amend them. This formed the initial basis since the country had enactedfirm laws for the involment of supporting the trade (Alpers and Mathew 87). Later on Georgia barred slave trade becoming an example of acquiescence for the antislavery foundation for the other opponents’ countries that were against slave trade. To obvious this point Georgia was purposing to weaken the security of the United States by disrupting interior peace.
Georgia declined to abandon the civil rights of choosing to free or hold the slaves by the Popular Sovereignty process of federal government. This formed the main political issue since the owners of slaves in other free states congregated the state to inaugurateloyalty creating a crisis between the slave owners of the free states and Georgia (Alpers and Mathew 88). It is because of this dispute that Republican and the Democrats resolved to participate in seven debates during the course of the election campaigns to discuss slave trade at its forthcoming in the U.S.
The rudimentary difference was the laws which Georgia legislated to revoke the slavetrade that was certain to weaken the United States security. Georgia’s unrest in the 1850s was as aresult of constitutional and political issues that originated from slave’s laws
Works Cited
Alpers, Edward A. and Mathew S. Hopper. Speaking for themselves? Understanding African Freed Slaves From The Western Indian Oceans, 1850s-1930s. Internet Resource