The Lecompton Constitution

The Lecompton Constitution was a tricky document made up by proslaverytes that did not allow for the people to vote for or against it but as a whole to vote with slavery or without it. Even if they voted against it, the slave owners who already owned slaves would be protected. So, technically, whatever the outcome of the Lecompton Constitution stated, there would still be black bondage in Kansas. Because of this, infuriated free soilers boycotted the polls and therefore; the proslaverytes left by themselves approved the Lecompton Constitution with slavery. Buchanan approved the Lecompton Constitution while senator Stephen A. Douglas thought of it as fraudulent.