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Popular sovereignty or the sovereignty of the people is the belief that the legitimacy of the state is created by the will or consent of its people, who are the source of all ...
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We the People . . . do ordain and establish this Constitution.” These words are contained in the Constitution's Preamble and give expression to the doctrine of popular ...

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Popular Sovereignty, also called squatter sovereignty, in the 19th-century United States, right of territorial inhabitants applying for statehood to determine whether their state would or would not sanction slavery. This principle of self-determination became part of the Compromise Measures of 1850 and of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854; it had as one of its staunchest proponents the American statesman Stephen Douglas.

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