Examples of popular sovereignty in the following topics:
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- The Compromise of 1850 left the question of slave versus free states to popular sovereignty.
- The territories of New Mexico and Utah would be organized on the basis
of popular sovereignty.
- By allowing popular sovereignty to determine slave
or free states, the Senate basically guaranteed future discord over the
sectional balance of power in the coming years.
- In the Compromise of 1850, popular sovereignty was not defined
as a guiding principle on the slave issue going forward.
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- All seven debates primarily discussed the slavery issue,
and for Lincoln, the debates provided an opportunity to articulate his position
against the expansion of slavery into the territories, which bolstered his
popularity with the Republicans and helped him secure the party's nomination in
the 1860 presidential election.
- As the author of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Douglas' aim in the debates
was to defend his position that popular sovereignty was the best method to
legislate on the expansion of slavery, regardless of the Dred Scott decision.
- Lincoln argued that legislating slavery based on
popular sovereignty would nationalize and perpetuate slavery in both the
territories and the northern states.
- Therefore, popular sovereignty and the Dred Scott decision were departures from
policies of the past.
- Addressing Douglas' accusations that he was an abolitionist, Lincoln countered
that popular sovereignty and Dred Scott set dangerous precedents and that the
nation could not exist perpetually as half slave and half free.
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- The events later known as Bleeding Kansas were set into motion by the Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854, which nullified the Missouri Compromise and instead implemented the concept of popular sovereignty.
- The principle of popular sovereignty stated that inhabitants of each territory or state should decide whether it would be a free or slave state.
- The Compromise of 1850, however, had mandated that popular sovereignty would determine any new territory's slave or free status.
- The initial purpose of the Kansas–Nebraska Act was to open up many thousands of new farms and facilitate the development of a Transcontinental Railroad in the Midwest Douglas and other representatives hoped that by tagging on the popular sovereignty mandate, they could evade having to confront the slave issue in the organization of the Kansas-Nebraska territory.
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- The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 mandated that popular sovereignty would determine the slave or free status in the region.
- Douglas (IL), repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and mandated
that popular sovereignty would determine any new territory's slave or free
status.
- Douglas and other
representatives hoped that by tagging on the popular sovereignty mandate, they
could avoid confronting the slave issue in the organization of the
Kansas-Nebraska territory.
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- Meanwhile, despite the controversial Dred Scott decision, Stephen
Douglas and many other Northern Democrats continued their support of popular
sovereignty as the final authority on the admission of slavery into new
territories, while Republicans denounced any measure that would allow for the
expansion of slavery.
- While
the president received the support of the Southern Democrats, Northern
Democrats and Republicans denounced the blatant violation of the will of the
popular majority in Kansas.
- In 1858, in an effort to win Northern support for the popular
sovereignty argument, Douglas entered into a series of debates with Abraham
Lincoln who was challenging him for the Illinois congressional seat.
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- Buchanan embraced the relatively
moderate popular sovereignty approach to the expansion of slavery in his
election platform and warned that the Republican Party was a coalition
of radical antislavery extremists that would force the country into Civil War.
- Buchanan had won 45.3% of the popular vote and 174 electoral votes
whereas Frémont won 33.1% of the popular vote and 114 electoral votes.
- Fillmore
won 21.6% of the popular vote and eight electoral votes.
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- The Compromise of 1850 was tested when a mass influx of
settlers arrived in Kansas and Nebraska territories to determine through
popular sovereignty whether or
not slavery would be permitted in each region.
- Northern Democrats, however, opposed the Lecompton Constitution
after it was voted down by the majority of Kansas settlers, believing that passage of the Lecompton Constitution would violate popular
sovereignty.
- In 1858, in an effort to win Northern support for the
popular sovereignty argument, incumbent Democratic Senator Stephen Douglas
entered into a series of debates with Abraham Lincoln, who was challenging him
for the Illinois congressional seat.
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- Southern
Democrats resented the Northern Democrats' continued support of popular
sovereignty as the best method to determine a territory's free or slave status
in spite of Dred Scott.
- Lincoln
won in the Electoral College with less than 40% of the popular vote nationwide,
leading contemporaries to cite the split in the Democratic party as a
contributing factor to Lincoln's victory.
- In ten of the 11 states that would later declare secession, Lincoln's
ticket did not even appear on the ballot; in Virginia, he received only 1% of
the popular vote.
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- It has also been construed to mean something like "all under the sovereign jurisdiction and authority of the United States. " The phrase has been construed as affirming that the national government created by the Constitution derives its sovereignty from the people, as well as confirming that the government under the Constitution was intended to govern and protect "the people" directly as one society instead of governing only the states as political units.
- The Court has also understood this language to mean that the sovereignty of the government under the U.S.
- Thomas Hobbes was a theorist of "sovereignty" in early modern political thought.
- Explain from whom or from where the national government derives its sovereignty under the Constitution
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- The phrase can be seen as affirming that the national government the Constitution created derives its sovereignty from the people.
- Similarly, the federal government, as an attribute of sovereignty, has the power to enforce those powers granted to it.
- Thus, no state may interfere with the federal government's operations as though its sovereignty were superior to that of the federal government.
- Sometimes, as a means to explain the US system of state sovereignty, the Supreme Court has even analogized the states as being foreign countries in relation to each other.
- However, each state's sovereignty is limited by the US Constitution, which is the supreme law of both the United States as a nation and each state.