What factors led to the decline of the Whig party in the early 1850s

The Compromise of 1850 and the expansion of slavery led to the end of the Whig Party.

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the punishment for breaking the law would depend on the conditions or the seriousness of the law being broken, if he or she breaks the law while doing some great discovery or invention then it would classify as a scientific fraud. there are other words to describe the crime but scientific fraud would be the harshest one.