government proper.22 Calhoun understood that in order to secure that veto power,he must of necessity defend the right of the people to bring their slaves with them when they emigrate into any territory and thereby constitutionally permit a territory to come into the Union as a slave state. Therefore,the aim or the purpose of Calhoun in defending the right of any citizen of any of the states to emigrate with their property into any of the territories is to uphold the perfect equality which belongs to the individual states as members of the Union and to direct that cause against the proposed derogation of the Union and the principle on which the country rests. If the relationship between one state and another is perfectly equal,then this status dictates that not only do they possess equal rights,but they also maintain equal claim to hold the territories of the United States as their joint and common property.Those lands that have the potential of becoming future states do not belong to the federal Union,but instead are under the authority of the states in their united character."They are the territories of all,because they are the territories of each;and not of each,because they are the territories of the whole."23 This entire argument rests upon the supposed sacredness of a state that Calhoun prescribes as correct constitutional doctrine.The territories legally belong to each and every individual state.Because the states are all equals,they all have an equal share in the territories that they collectively possess.As a consequence of this,no one state or one collection of some states may impose legal restrictions upon the territories and deny them specific constitutional rights that go directly against the dominion or sovereignty that any other state equally possesses by the Constitution.The territories do not belong to one faction of states, but to all of them as a whole.Therefore,to have one group of states prescribe unconstitutional conditions upon the territories and seek to disable them of their legal rights can never fit within the framework of the presumed sacredness of a state.The formula promulgated and propagated by the North to exclude slavery from the territories declares that some states are more sacred than others,a political tactic that is both unconstitutional and a breeder of bad government.No advantage can be given to one state or the other.This is the Calhounian stance that declares that the power to exclude slavery from the territories implies a power to subvert the Constitution itself. Calhoun's focal point is that there is no legal or constitutional restraint upon bringing slavery into the territories.It must be noted that this was the very thing that Lincoln had consistently denied.Lincoln always thought that the Constitution did not give him or the Congress authority to interfere with slavery in the states where it was alreadygovernment proper. 22 Calhoun understood that in order to secure that veto power, he must of necessity defend the right of the people to bring their slaves with them when they emigrate into any territory and thereby constitutionally permit a territory to come into the Union as a slave state. Therefore, the aim or the purpose of Calhoun in defending the right of any citizen of any of the states to emigrate with their property into any of the territories is to uphold the perfect equality which belongs to the individual states as members of the Union and to direct that cause against the proposed derogation of the Union and the principle on which the country rests. If the relationship between one state and another is perfectly equal, then this status dictates that not only do they possess equal rights, but they also maintain equal claim to hold the territories of the United States as their joint and common property. Those lands that have the potential of becoming future states do not belong to the federal Union, but instead are under the authority of the states in their united character. "They are the territories of all, because they are the territories of each; and not of each, because they are the territories of the whole." 23 This entire argument rests upon the supposed sacredness of a state that Calhoun prescribes as correct constitutional doctrine. The territories legally belong to each and every individual state. Because the states are all equals, they all have an equal share in the territories that they collectively possess. As a consequence of this, no one state or one collection of some states may impose legal restrictions upon the territories and deny them specific constitutional rights that go directly against the dominion or sovereignty that any other state equally possesses by the Constitution. The territories do not belong to one faction of states, but to all of them as a whole. Therefore, to have one group of states prescribe unconstitutional conditions upon the territories and seek to disable them of their legal rights can never fit within the framework of the presumed sacredness of a state. The formula promulgated and propagated by the North to exclude slavery from the territories declares that some states are more sacred than others, a political tactic that is both unconstitutional and a breeder of bad government. No advantage can be given to one state or the other. This is the Calhounian stance that declares that the power to exclude slavery from the territories implies a power to subvert the Constitution itself. Calhoun’s focal point is that there is no legal or constitutional restraint upon bringing slavery into the territories. It must be noted that this was the very thing that Lincoln had consistently denied. Lincoln always thought that the Constitution did not give him or the Congress authority to interfere with slavery in the states where it was already