A bill to prohibit slavery might have passed the House. But it certainly would have been filibustered to death in the Senate. Therefore, zero chance of being passed.
“A bill to prohibit slavery might have passed the House. But it certainly would have been filibustered to death in the Senate.”
Ah, further proof that the word “Senate” is Latin for loathsome low IQ pieces of excrement who could not hold any other job.
Bingo!
That's it in a nutshell, Jonty30!
They simply couldn't have gotten enough votes to pass any such legislation, because the South still had too many senators in the Senate and too many Representatives in the House of Representatives. (That changed when they temporarily lost all representation due to the Rebellion, thus allowing the North to pass any legislation they liked.)
Not to mention that, if all else failed, the Supreme Court could still then have ruled that it would have been a violation of property rights to deprive slave-owners of their (until that time) rightful property.
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