<Li> Popular sovereignty, developed by Lewis Cass and Douglas as the position of the Democratic Party, was to let each territory decide itself whether to allow slavery . </Li> <Li> William L. Yancey's "Alabama Platform", endorsed by the Alabama and the Georgia legislatures and by Democratic state conventions in Florida and Virginia, called for no restrictions on slavery in the territories by the federal government or territorial governments before statehood, opposition to any candidates supporting either the Wilmot Proviso or popular sovereignty, and federal legislation to overrule Mexican anti-slavery laws . </Li> <Li> Two free states were proposed by Zachary Taylor, who served as President from March 1849 to July 1850 . As President, he proposed that the entire area become two free states, called California and New Mexico but much larger than the ones today . None of the area would be left as an unorganized or organized territory, which would avoid the question of slavery in the territories . </Li> <Li> Changing Texas's borders was proposed by Senator Thomas Hart Benton in December 1849 or January 1850 . Texas's western and northern boundaries would be the 102nd meridian west and the 34th parallel north . </Li>

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