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	Popular sovereignty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Popular sovereignty is the doctrine that the state is created by and subject to the will of the people, who are the source of all political power.
		Popular sovereignty is an idea that dates to the social contract school (mid-1600s to mid 1700s), represented by Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), John Locke (1632-1704) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778).
		Popular sovereignty is a distinct concept from territorial sovereignty.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Popular_sovereignty (609 words)

	Lalor, Cyclopaedia of Political Science, V.3, Entry 74, POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY: Library of Economics and Liberty
		Douglas asserted that popular sovereignty was the basis of the bill, and the course of proceedings on it in the senate seems to confirm his assertion.
		"Popular sovereignty" and common sense said, Yes; the very senate that passed the bill said, No; Chase's amendment, "under which the people of the territory, through their appropriate representatives, may, if they see fit, prohibit the existence of slavery therein," was rejected, March 2, by a vote of 36 to 10.
		Popular sovereignty in the territories is, and has always been, a privilege, not a right; and the privilege is to be exercised in strict conformity to the terms of the grant.
	www.econlib.org /library/YPDBooks/Lalor/llCy844.html (2048 words)

	Sovereignty Past & Present
		From Locke and Rousseau come the necessary ingredients of a doctrinal recipe for “popular sovereignty.” Locke envisioned the delegated transfer of legislative and executive rights to the government conditioned upon its ability to preserve “life, liberty and estate.” The government’s legitimacy is rooted in “consent” granted by the people’s representatives.
		From the vantage point later provided by democratic theory and practice, the theoretical tensions and gaps in the doctrine of popular sovereignty suffice to render the notion a rhetorical fiction or perhaps simply a suggestive metaphor (for Max Weber, it was clearly and simply the former).
		Internal sovereignty refers to the state’s political and legal supremacy with respect to affairs within its nation-state territorial borders, while external sovereignty entails the state’s status as equal to and independent of other sovereign states expressed, for example, in its capacity to enter into economic agreements, military alliances, or treaties with other states.
	globalization.icaap.org /content/v4.1/odonnell.html (3189 words)

	Iraq's struggle for sovereignty -DAWN - International; 24 June, 2004
		Sovereignty is vested in the Iraqi people, and always has been: before Saddam Hussein, after him, under the martial law of the American proconsul Paul Bremer today.
		Sovereignty is vested in the people, and not in the apparatus of state.
		It was the principle of popular sovereignty that was fought for by generations of Europeans from the late 18th century and throughout the 19th in order to establish democracies in the face of foreign military conquest and imperial rule.
	www.dawn.com /2004/06/24/int5.htm (851 words)

	Oct. 18. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		War for “Bleeding Kansas.” The opening of Kansas to settlement under the Douglas doctrine of popular sovereignty precipitated a mad scramble for control between proslavery and free-soil elements.
		The Lecompton constitution was formed by proslavery forces, but was denounced by Douglas as a fraud upon the people of Kansas and a violation of the popular sovereignty doctrine.
		Stephen Douglas (1813–61) was elected, but Abraham Lincoln (1809–65), by asking Douglas to reconcile his doctrine of popular sovereignty with the Dred Scott decision, forced him to enunciate his Freeport heresy, which was deeply distasteful to the southern wing of the party.
	www.bartleby.com /67/1583.html (471 words)

	popular sovereignty - The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition - HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY [popular sovereignty] in U.S. history, doctrine under which the status of slavery in the territories was to be determined by the settlers themselves.
		Although the doctrine won wide support as a means of avoiding sectional conflict over the slavery issue, its meaning remained ambiguous, since proponents disagreed as to the stage of territorial development at which the decision should be made.
		First proposed in 1847 by Vice President George Dallas and popularized by Lewis Cass in his 1848 presidential campaign, the doctrine was incorporated in the Compromise of 1850 and four years later was an important feature of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
	www.highbeam.com /doc/1E1:populars/popular+sovereignty.html?refid=ip_hf (181 words)

	Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lincoln was opposed to any expansion of slavery into new United States territories, while Douglas supported the doctrine of popular sovereignty, believing that a territory's residents should vote on whether or not to allow slavery.
		Because the Senate campaign took place before the ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment, the debates were designed to influence Illinois voters to elect representatives to the state legislature who would then support their chosen senatorial candidates.
		Stephen A. Douglas actually believed in popular sovereignty, but he had promised the Supreme Court that he would allow them to rule on the legality of slavery in the territories, and that he would support their decision.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lincoln-Douglas_debates_of_1858 (500 words)

	The Election of 1860
		Popularized by such prominent party leaders as Lewis Cass, its nominee in 1848, and Stephen A. Douglas, Illinois's eminent and ambitious United States senator, popular sovereignty left the question-- whether slavery should be permitted to expand into a territory-- up to the people in the territory.
		Popular sovereignty promised to keep the subject of slavery out of the hands of politicians in Washington, and to give it, instead, to the people, the territorial citizens, most directly involved.
		Republicans, however, denounced popular sovereignty as inadequate to prevent the spread of slavery, and morally bankrupt because it implied that a decision for slavery was morally equivalent to one against.
	www.tulane.edu /~latner/Background/BackgroundElection.html (2060 words)

	Jimmy the Cork : Amanda Corcoran2/28/05Period 3AP US Hist
		Cass was a leading supporter of the Doctrine of Popular Sovereignty, which held that the people who lived in a territory should decide whether or not to permit slavery there.
		Popular Sovereignty - the doctrine that government is created by and subject to the will of the people, who are the source of all political power.
		Popular sovereignty is an idea that dates to the social contract school (mid-1600s to mid 1700s).
	www.greatestjournal.com /users/bamf_girl143/36789.html (4427 words)

	E Law: Sovereignty in British Legal Doctrine
		By titling this article 'Sovereignty in British Legal Doctrine' rather than 'The British Doctrine of Sovereignty' I wanted to underline that I am not only going to examine the doctrine of Parliamentary Sovereignty, genuinely British, but also the sovereignty of the people, which is common throughout western juridical and political theory.
		In effect, for the great English philosopher, the sovereign was not subject to the fundamental laws since its sovereignty was born, not from a social pact or bilateral contract entered between the King and his people, but from a social pact developed by individuals in the state of nature, that is, in a pre-judicial period.
		In respect of the doctrine of the division of powers Bentham argued that in a State there must be a sovereign power, such that rather than argue for a division of powers it was preferable to speak of a division of functions.
	www.murdoch.edu.au /elaw/issues/v6n3/suanzes63nf.html (9793 words)

	popular - Search Results - MSN Encarta
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	ca.encarta.msn.com /popular.html (146 words)

	James Madison on the Relationship Between Democratic Theory and Federalism
		Why they insisted on popular government to make the Constitution defensible was in part related to the predisposition of their audience, but also to their belief in man’s political impulse for self assertion (Easton, 1984,6-7).
		The nature of the sovereignty of each state was equal to that of the sovereignty of he Union itself, because it rested on the same source, ‘“for the sovereignty of each is but a moral person.
		The great desideratum in government is, so to modify the sovereignty as that it may be sufficiently neutral between different parts of the Society to control one part from Invading the rights of another, and at the same time sufficiently controlled itself, from setting up an interest adverse to that of the entire Society.
	www.cjsocpols.armstrong.edu /kearnes/JamesMadison.htm (6847 words)

	ARGUMENTS FOR BRITISH BRITAIN'S MONARCHY SOVEREIGNTY OF PEOPLE QUEEN CROWN
		Republicans claim that the idea of sovereignty residing with the people is in direct conflict with the idea of sovereignty residing with the Queen.
		The doctrine of popular sovereignty, expressed commonly as "the sovereignty of the people" is a term which extends its franchise logically to the entire population of the world.
		The sovereignty of the people, both individually and collectively, is exercised at the ballot box and it is exercised nationally through the governing institutions of the nation.
	www.sovereignty.org.uk /features/articles/sovque.html (593 words)

	Douglas, Stephen Arnold - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		For the Compromise of 1850, Douglas drafted the bills instituting territorial government in New Mexico and Utah, whose citizens were left free to act for themselves on all subjects of legislation (including slavery) not inconsistent with the Constitution.
		This was the essence of Douglas's doctrine of popular sovereignty (a phrase he coined later, in 1854), or Squatter Sovereignty, as its opponents contemptuously called it.
		Douglas believed that popular sovereignty would unite the northern and southern wings of the Democratic party and at the same time settle the slavery issue peacefully.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-dougls1a1.html (980 words)

	Stephen A. Douglas
		Since all political power resided in the people, argued Douglas, it was the people, not the federal government, who should decide the question of slavery in their own territory.
		Popular sovereignty had the potential for great public appeal because it was closely tied to the ideal of majority rule and the principles of American constitutionalism.
		Douglas, who had fallen seriously ill, roused himself from his sickbed to defend popular sovereignty and denounce Lecompton on the floor of the Senate.
	www.lib.uchicago.edu /e/spcl/excat/douglas5.html (965 words)

	Michael Les Benedict \| Abraham Lincoln and Federalism \| Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association, 10
		The doctrine of state sovereignty was developed over time by such lawyers, politicians, and political philosophers as Virginia Congressman John Randolph, jurisprudents St. George Tucker and Spencer Roane, John Taylor of Caroline, and John C. Calhoun, elaborating upon principles originally articulated by Jefferson and Madison in the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions.
		Moreover, the general antebellum state-centeredness that provided an environment conducive to dual federalism was equally hospitable to state sovereignty, and when the southern states did secede, the vast majority of white southerners decided that in a final conflict they owed their primary allegiance to the state rather than to the national sovereignty.
		Although state-rights doctrine gained great force from the conviction that the Constitution was a compact among the states, it did not depend on that conception and could survive its demise.
	jala.press.uiuc.edu /10/benedict.html (14347 words)

	Guardian \| The struggle for sovereignty
		The United States and Britain claim to be handing sovereignty to Iraq next week.
		The constant need of George Bush and Tony Blair to claim sovereignty reflects more than a misunderstanding of the laws of war and basic international law.
		When the formal apparatus of a state crumbles during invasion and occupation, and authority is exercised by a foreign military power, sovereignty returns to its bearers, a country's citizens.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4954174-103677,00.html (870 words)

	The Hindu : International : Iraq's struggle for sovereignty
		This fact is reflected in the language of the most recent U.N. resolution 1546, on June 8 as well as previous ones, all of which ``reaffirm the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Iraq''.
		The quest for representative government was at the heart of the battle against a variety of unrepresentative regimes in 19th century Europe: the Polish struggle for emancipation against the Russian and Prussian armies in the 18th and 19th centuries; the Russian partisans who fought Napoleon's army and later the Nazi invaders.
		The young men who defended Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank and Rafah refugee camp in Gaza, and who recently won back the Iraqi cities of Fallujah and Najaf from the occupying power, are not the terrorists — or the enemies of democracy.
	www.hindu.com /2004/06/24/stories/2004062404481300.htm (897 words)

	Major L. Wilson \| Lincoln on the Perpetuation of Republican Institutions: Whig and Republican Strategies \| Journal of ...
		Its doctrine of popular sovereignty exhibited the mobocratic spirit in a new and fateful form; it gave over to the naked will of a small majority in one part of the national territory a power over slavery that violated the true principle of self-government inscribed in the Declaration of Independence.
		Whigs warned that danger lay in the Caesarian ambitions of a military chieftain driven onward to rash and tyrannical acts by a phalanx of sychophants and party spoilsmen.
		The enemy was the new doctrine of popular sovereignty; under its delusive appeal for self-government, a small majority in one part of the national domain claimed the power to establish slavery.
	jala.press.uiuc.edu /16.1/wilson.html (3274 words)

	Furman: Louisville, Kentucky, Journal, 16 March 1857 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		It annihilates the issue which was made paramount in the recent Presidential election, and takes away from the Democratic party all the advantages of its advocacy of popular sovereignty in the Territories.
		They made this popular sovereignty doctrine the chief, and, in fact, the only, plank in their platform.
		President elect greatly eulogised this squatter sovereignty doctrine, "that the will of the majority shall govern the settlement of the question of domestic slavery in the Territories," and frankly admitted that it was upon this doctrine that the
	facweb.furman.edu /~benson/docs/editorial/kyljds57316a.htm (825 words)

	Kansas History ONLINE
		This was Populi voce nata — “Born of the popular will,” a reference to the doctrine of “Popular Sovereignty” devised by the US Senator from Illinois, Stephen A. Douglas, who saw it as a way to placate the increasingly fractious constituencies within the national Democratic Party.
		“Popular Sovereignty” became enshrined into law with the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act, which effectively repealed the northward limit on the extension of slavery that had been in place since the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
		This was Populi voce nata — “Born of the popular will,” a reference to the doctrine of “Popular Sovereignty” devised by the US Senator from Illinois, Stephen A. Douglas.
	www.kansashistoryonline.org /ksh/ArticlePage.asp?artid=110 (3848 words)

	Lincoln/Net: Debating Douglas on the National Stage, 1857-1858
		Some Republicans seized upon Douglas's differences with the Democratic leadership, especially his refusal to go along with Buchanan's acceptance of a proslavery constitution for the new state of Kansas that was forged in intimidation, violence and deceit by pro-southern forces there, and urged that the party support his re-election.
		In the debates Lincoln pointed toward the combined, cumulative effect of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the Dred Scott decision and the debacle of "Bleeding Kansas" as evidence that, despite Douglas's break with the administration, the Democratic Party was leading the nation toward a future that included slavery in every state and territory.
		Douglas vigorously defended his doctrine of popular sovereignty, a position that exposed his disagreement with the Democratic leadership.
	lincoln.lib.niu.edu /biography7.html (433 words)

	Popular sovereignty
		Popular sovereignty - · A doctrine promoted by Stephen Douglas in which the legality of slavery in U.S. territories not yet states is determined by settlers living there.
		It was utilized as a way of appeasing both sides of the slavery debate.
		It was ambiguous, however, since people disagreed at which point in a territory's development this decision should be made.
	www.sparknotes.com /biography/stowe/terms/term_4.html (61 words)

	Introduction To Lincoln's Speech
		The formula, known as popular sovereignty, temporarily satisfied both southerners and some northerners, since it appeared democratic; as Douglas pointed out, unless a majority of people in a territory supported slavery, it could not take hold.
		Under the Dred Scott decision squatter sovereignty squatted out of existence, tumbled down like temporary scaffolding; like the mould at the foundry, served through one blast, and fell back into loose sand; helped to carry an election, and then was kicked to the winds.
		Auxiliary to all this, and working hand in hand with it, the Nebraska doctrine, or what is left of it, is to educate and mould public opinion, at least Northern public opinion, not to care whether slavery is voted down or voted up.
	exchanges.state.gov /education/engteaching/pubs/amlnc/br22.htm (1435 words)

	TCS Daily - Hobbes, Locke and the Bush Doctrine
		Now, from Almaty to Amman, from Baku to Beirut, from Cairo to China, from Kiev to Karachi, from Damascus to Darfur, from Tehran to Tashkent, the Bush administration faces the challenge of translating its democratic vision into policy, and one of the constraints is that some consider this unwarranted interference in sovereign states.
		Where such traditions are absent or weak, popular sovereignty easily turns into populist dictatorship, liberal democracy to libertinism and demagoguery.
		Locke, in A Letter Concerning Tolerance, advocates toleration (which is also implicit in his phrase "the secure Enjoyment of their Properties.") Many considered Saddam's regime the legitimate government of Iraq despite its lack of freedom of religion and of speech.
	www.tcsdaily.com /article.aspx?id=062105C (3444 words)

	Lincoln/Net: The Campaign of the Century, 1859-1861
		For his part, the victorious Stephen A. Douglas continued to present popular sovereignty as the best solution to the slavery question in American politics.
		The speech covered familiar ground, condemning popular sovereignty and urging Republicans not to compromise on their opposition to the extension of slavery.
		Douglas toured both the North (where he was a popular candidate) and the South (where fevered southern-rights advocates increasingly viewed his doctrine of popular sovereignty as a betrayal of their demands).
	lincoln.lib.niu.edu /biography8text.html (1565 words)

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