The question was this: did Congress have the power to control or even ban slavery in the new territories?

VOA: special.2009.03.05

He said later that he did so because he was finding it difficult to bring up the question of surrender.

VOA: special.2009.12.24

The question is how much are people willing to pay for news that they have gotten used to receiving for free?

VOA: special.2009.04.20

On the question of slavery in the new territories, Cass believed that the people of the territory should make the decision.

VOA: special.2009.03.05

You have no need of your courage, John Carter, because you already knew the answer before you asked the question.

VOA: special.2010.07.31

Readers can better understand how informed consent and the question of morality in medical experiments have changed over time.

VOA: special.2010.07.21

In fact,the question happened to arrive just a few days before the pop star died on June twenty-fifth.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

But the question remained: should slavery be legal in new territories in the western part of the country?

VOA: special.2009.04.02

Then a senator from Delaware agreed to be chairman of a special committee on the question of slavery in the new territories.

VOA: special.2009.02.26

Even if that could be done, there was the question of what to do with the freed slaves.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

During the first half of the nineteenth century, leaders of the United States could find no answer to the question of slavery.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

But he said that when the question of the tariff is raised, businessmen claim that industry is weak.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

Then the chief justice took up the question of the free territory in which Scott had lived.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

The northern victory had settled for all time the question of whether states could leave the Union.

VOA: special.2010.01.14