This allowed the Missouri Compromise to become possible, as Missouri and Maine could then be accepted without upsetting the Senate's balance between free and slave states. The compromise admitted ...

“Missourians are telling us they want compromise,” he said ... including one that would’ve prevented Missouri medical ...

Mike Kehoe, Missouri's likely next governor, recently gave an interview in which he outlined several of his priorities. While ...

Was the Missouri Compromise, which allowed Missouri to enter the union as a slave state, an example of that progression of our founding ideals, or was it a step backward? Was Congress ...

With some GOP leaders in Missouri already plotting ways to overturn an abortion-rights amendment if it passes next month, the ...

We'll call it the Missouri compromise.' 'The Missouri Compromise 2: The Recompromising,' a third jokester chimed in. In truth, the Missouri Compromise was the name of legislation from 1820 that ...

A constitutional amendment on the state ballot would protect “the right to make and carry out decisions about all matters ...

Voters in Kansas and Missouri re-elected a supermajority of Republicans to their general assemblies this week.

In 1820 the Missouri Compromise was passed to sort out this issue. By 1819, the US was made up of 22 states - evenly split between Slave States and Free States. In November 1819, Missouri ...

Missouri gambling regulators will offer online and retail sportsbook licenses to six major pro sports franchises, as well as each of 13 casino locations across the state. It also will allow ...

"If you continue pouring FOG down the drain, no amount of degreasing is going to save your pipes," Mouawad says. "Eventually ...

The issue was resolved by a two-part compromise. First, Missouri gained admission to the Union as a slave state, with a provision that portions of the Louisiana Territory lying north of 36' 30 ...