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The Freeport Doctrine was Stephen Douglas's answer to Lincoln's question, in which he explained that slavery could only exist where there was a slave code. If a state did not pass the necessary laws to protect slavery, then they could not have slavery exist there. He argued that a territory had the right to exclude slavery, despite the Supreme Court decision in the Dred Scott case.

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The Freeport Doctrine refers to the speech that was made by Stephen A. Douglas on the 27th of August 1858 in Freeport. The significance is that this was one of the reasons that he lost the 1860 presidential elections.

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