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After a fatal duel between two legislators, Jonathan Cilley and William J. Graves, Congress passed an anti-dueling law. Henry Clay, of Kentucky, an opponent of duels, made his support of the bill known by explaining, \"When public opinion is renovated and chastened by reason, religion and humanity, the practice of dueling will be discountenanced.\" The bill banned dueling in the District of Columbia beginning on February 20, 1839. In the next decades, various states followed Congress\'s lead. Members of the clergy and concerned politicians continued to give impassioned speeches further criticizing the \"peculiar practice.\"
Although dueling persisted into the early 1800s, and reached its height during that period, by the middle of the century it had largely disappeared. Historians attribute the decline to an increase in the number of laws banning it, and in the penalties for dueling. These laws reflected a change in attitude toward the practice, which came to be viewed as barbarous, rather than honorable. The Code Duello\'s unyielding, Old World conception of honor was discredited by younger generations. Outlawed and outmoded, dueling remains an interesting chapter in the history of dispute resolution in the United States.
Reference: http://www.answers.com/topic/dueling
决斗在19世纪中叶的美国已经上已经不多了，但是这并不代表决斗在那个时期不会成为一种文化现象，与此相反，我个人认为在那个时代决斗很可能在美国会成为某种社会或者文化现象，或者成为文艺作品中热衷的场景。因为决斗从11世纪就已经产生了(\"As practised from the 11th to 20th centuries in Western societies, a duel was and is an engagement in combat between two individuals, with matched weapons in accordance with their combat doctrines. In the modern application the term is applied to air combat between fighter pilots\" - Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duel),漫长的决斗史孕育了深厚的决斗文化，而西方殖民者同样也把这种文化带入了美国，尽管它可能不是大众的主流文化。
决斗的消亡也是社会和人类发展的必然，从现实层面上讲是源于法律的令行禁止，而从人性来讲可以引用下面的话：Henry Clay, of Kentucky, an opponent of duels, made his support of the bill known by explaining, \"When public opinion is renovated and chastened by reason, religion and humanity, the practice of dueling will be discountenanced.\"
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