| 從「威爾莫特但書」(Wilmot Proviso) 到1850年的妥協方案 (Compromise of 1850)
「威爾莫特但書」（Wilmot Proviso）送進眾議院數次，但從未送達參議院、也未能成為法律條文。
雖然波爾克認同美國人心中的「必然天命」（Manifest Destiny），拓展國家的疆域，但在他於1849年卸任時、奴隸制度的議題在美國國內政治上已變成前所未有的重要課題。
The Wilmot Proviso passed in the House of Representatives several times, but never in the Senate and so never became a law.
Although Polk satisfied Americans' sense of "manifest destiny" by vastly enlarging the nation's territory, by the time he left office in 1849 the slavery issue loomed in the forefront of U.S. domestic politics as never before.
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