Outraged free-soilers formed a separate government and imported dozens of Sharps rifles in boxes marked .

Outraged, free-soilers formed a separate government. Then they armed for a fight, importing dozens of Sharps rifles from New England in boxes marked "books." The fight came soon enough. On May 21, 1856, a proslavery federal marshal assembled a posse of about 800, which stormed the free-soil town of Lawrence.

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basic principles: federalism, separation of powers, checks and balances, judicial review, representative democracy, limited government, rule of law, individual rights and responsibilities, consent of the governed, majority rule, popular sovereignty, equal protection.