“The master not only governs the slave without his consent, but he governs him by a set of rules altogether different from those which he prescribes for himself. Allow all the governed an equal voice in the government, and that, and that only, is self-government.”

– Abraham Lincoln in a speech in Peoria, Illinois, arguing against the Kansas-Nebraska Act which repealed the Missouri Compromise and allowed for slavery north of 36 30′ latitude, October 16, 1854