Lecompton Constitution Hall - View this location on map Constitution Hall was the meeting place for the second Kansas territorial legislature in 1857 . It is the only building of the several in which opposing drafts of the first Kansas Constitution were approved. Passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) precipitated a bloody struggle for dominance by pro- and anti-slavery factions in Kansas, as well as a fierce constitutional debate. The Lecompton Constitution of 1857, a pro-slavery document drafted in Lecompton (the territorial capital of Kansas and also the headquarters of pro-slavery elements in the territory), was supported by President Buchanan but rejected by Congress and the people of Kansas. The Lecomption Constitution served to inflame the growing sectional dispute which was shortly to burst into Civil War. 319 Elmore Street, Lecompton, Kansas Historical

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