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  2. Popular sovereignty in the United States - Wikipedia

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    To some moderates, slavery in the territories was not a matter for Congress to resolve; they argued that the people in each territory, like those in each American state, were the sovereigns thereof and should determine the status of slavery. [11] Popular sovereignty became part of the rhetoric for leaving to residents of the new American ...

  3. Popular sovereignty - Wikipedia

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    Popular sovereignty is the principle that the leaders of a state and its government are created and sustained by the consent of its people, who are the source of all political legitimacy. Popular sovereignty, being a principle, does not imply any particular political implementation.

  4. A Treatise on the Patriarchal, or Co-operative System of Society

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    According to Kingsley, a slave state is more powerful in case of war. [1]: 42 He examines other "slave holding states". In the case of Brazil, the war between Brazil and "the Republic of Buenos Ayres" (he refers to the Cisplatine War) shows the strength of a slave state contrasted with the weakness of a white antislave state. The Brazilian ...

  5. Freeport Doctrine - Wikipedia

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    By taking this position, Douglas was defending his popular sovereignty or "Squatter Sovereignty" principle of 1854, which he considered to be a compromise between pro-slavery and anti-slavery positions. It was satisfactory to the legislature of Illinois, which reelected Douglas over Lincoln to the Senate. However, the Freeport Doctrine, or ...

  6. Slave Power - Wikipedia

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    Nye, Russel B. "'The Slave Power Conspiracy': 1830–1860," Science & Society Summer 1946 10(3): 262-274 in JSTOR; Richards, Leonard L. Slave Power: The Free North and Southern Domination, 1780–1860 (2000). Tewell, Jeremy J. A Self-Evident Lie: Southern Slavery and the Threat to American Freedom (Kent State University Press; 2012) 160 pages.

  7. Compromise of 1850 - Wikipedia

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    According to historian Mark Stegmaier, "The Fugitive Slave Act, the abolition of the slave trade in the District of Columbia, the admission of California as a free state, and even the application of the formula of popular sovereignty to the territories were all less important than the least remembered component of the Compromise of 1850—the ...

  8. Jean Bodin - Wikipedia

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    Edward Coke took from Bodin on sovereignty; and like him opposed the concept of mixed monarchy. [152] While Bodin's ideas on authority fitted with the theory of divine right of kings, his main concern was not with the choice of the sovereign. But that meant they could cut both ways, being cited by parliamentarians as well as royalists.

  9. Lincoln–Douglas debates - Wikipedia

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    Douglas replied that both Whigs and Democrats believed in popular sovereignty and that the Compromise of 1850 was an example of this. Lincoln said that the national policy was to limit the spread of slavery, and he mentioned the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 as an example of this policy, which banned slavery from a large part of the Midwest. [23 ...