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To: MUDDOG

Question. How so?


44 posted on 07/11/2014 2:27:57 PM PDT by noinfringers2
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To: noinfringers2

In 1820, when Missouri was admitted as a slave state, Maine was broken off from Massachusetts and admitted as a free state, in order to keep the balance in the Senate.


46 posted on 07/11/2014 2:38:00 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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