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  2. 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.

  3. History of the United States (1849–1865) - Wikipedia

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    In 1854, the Kansas–Nebraska Act reversed long-standing compromises by providing that each new state of the Union would decide its posture on slavery (popular sovereignty). The newly formed Republican Party stood against the expansion of slavery and won control of most Northern states (with enough electoral votes to win the presidency in 1860).

  4. Popular sovereignty in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In short, the concept of "popular sovereignty", which Lincoln called "a living, creeping lie", [18] proved no solution to the slavery question in Kansas or anywhere else. The genuine residents of Kansas showed, when honest elections were held, that they overwhelmingly wanted it to be a free state.

  5. Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War - Wikipedia

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    Democrat Lewis Cass of Michigan proposes letting the people of a territory vote on whether to permit slavery in the territory. This theory of popular sovereignty would be further endorsed and advocated by Democratic Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois in the mid-1850s. [147] 1848

  6. Sovereigntism - Wikipedia

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    Sovereigntism, sovereignism or souverainism (from French: souverainisme, pronounced [su.vʁɛ.nism] ⓘ, meaning "the ideology of sovereignty") is the notion of having control over one's conditions of existence, whether at the level of the self, social group, region, nation or globe. [1]

  7. History of liberalism - Wikipedia

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    The American theorists and politicians strongly believe in the sovereignty of the people rather than in the sovereignty of the King. As one historian writes: "The American adoption of a democratic theory that all governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, as it had been put as early as the Declaration of Independence ...

  8. Education in Pakistan - Wikipedia

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    The vocational curriculum starts at year 5 and ends with year 10. [20] Three boards, the Punjab Board of Technical Education (PBTE), KPK Board of Technical Education (KPKBTE) and Sindh Board of Technical Education (SBTE) offering Matric Tech. course called Technical School Certificate (TSC) (equivalent to 10th grade) and Diploma of Associate ...

  9. The Spirit of Law - Wikipedia

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    Book XV: How the laws of civil slavery relate to the nature of the climate; Book XVI: How the laws of domestic slavery relate to the nature of the climate; Book XVII: How the laws of political servitude are related to the nature of the climate; Book XVIII: On laws in their relationship to the nature of the terrain