In the debates of 1850, Senator William H. Seward, as a representative of the northern Young Guard, argued that
A) Senator Daniel Webster proposed a highly coercive fugitive slave law which was an acceptable concession to the South.
B) John C. Calhoun's compromise plan must be adopted to preserve the Union.
C) Christian legislators must obey God's moral law.
D) compromise must be achieved to preserve the Union.
E) African Americans should be granted their own territory.

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Senator William H. Seward argued that Christian legislators must obey God's moral law, suggesting that there was a higher law than the Constitution that should guide their decisions, particularly in the context of slavery.

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