Senator Abraham Lincoln and Senator Stephan a. Douglas had many disagreements in the 7th presidential debate one of them regarding the Kansas- Nebraska act. The Kansas-Nebraska act is to determine whether or not the people of Kansas and Nebraska have the choice of allowing slavery within their borders. This act was proposed by Douglas himself.
Douglas believed in the right of free choice and that they had the ability of deciding their own policy regarding slavery. "It is the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into any State or Territory or to exclude it there from, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the Federal Constitution." -Douglas
Senator Lincoln views of the Kansas Nebraska Act are the complete opposite. Lincoln believed that slavery should be abolished all together. “All men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, DERIVING THEIR JUST POWERS FROM THE CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED.”- Lincoln
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