Template:Did you know nominations/Samuel Dexter Lecompte
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The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 17:28, 17 May 2023 (UTC)
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Samuel Dexter Lecompte
- ... that Samuel Dexter Lecompte, the proslavery Chief Justice of Kansas Territory before the Civil War, administered oaths to the Fugitive Slave Act instead of the United States Constitution? Source: Thomas Ewing Jr.: Frontier Lawyer and Civil War General: The oath administered to new lawyers by Judge Samuel Lecompte swore allegiance to the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Fugitive Slave Law rather than the Constitution of the United States and the “divinity of the Christian religion.” This was a pragmatic view. The Fugitive Slave Act was more important to national stability than Christianity, at least at this moment—and from a Missouri slave owner’s perspective.
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5x expanded by Festucalex (talk). Self-nominated at 09:56, 23 April 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Samuel Dexter Lecompte; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.
