Who of the following people is correctly matched to his position on the extension of slavery during the debate over the admission of California into the Union in 1850?

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Lewis Cass supported popular sovereignty, which meant that the residents of a territory would decide whether or not to allow slavery when they applied for statehood. This was a middle-ground position between those who wanted to extend slavery and those who wanted to ban it. John C. Calhoun favored extending the Missouri Compromise line, but he died in 1850 before the debate over California's admission to the Union. James Buchanan and other northern Democrats did argue that Congress had no authority to regulate slavery in the territories, but this was not specifically related to the extension of slavery into California. Stephen Douglas, meanwhile, was the author of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which allowed popular sovereignty in those territories and was seen by many as a concession to Southern demands for territorial expansion of slavery. However, this was several years after the debate over California's admission to the Union.

Who of the Following People Is Correctly Matched to His