The Wilmot Proviso:

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The Wilmot Proviso:

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The Wilmot Proviso was a proposed amendment to a bill in Congress which would have banned slavery in any territories acquired from Mexico. It did not pass both houses of Congress and was opposed by Southern politicians. Abraham Lincoln did not serve in Congress at the time, so he did not have a position on the Wilmot Proviso. Extending the Missouri Compromise line to the Pacific was also a proposed solution to the issue of slavery in new territories, but it was not part of the Wilmot Proviso. The constitutionality of the Wilmot Proviso was debated, but it was never enacted into law to be deemed constitutional or unconstitutional.