Lincoln and the Republicans rejected John Crittenden's proposal to save the nation from southern secession because it
A) protected and encouraged the expansion of slavery.
B) undermined the will of the people expressed in the election of 1860.
C) submitted the federal government to the whims of several wealthy slaveholders.
D) was unconstitutional.
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