So long as the number of slave states was the same as or gr… - William C. Davis

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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

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William Charles Davis (born 1946) is an American historian from the U.S. state of Virginia, known for his writings on the American Civil War.

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