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	Popular Sovereignty
		Popular sovereignty was the political doctrine which provided for the settlers of federal territorial lands to decide the status (free or slave) under which they would join the Union.
		Popular sovereignty was invoked in the Compromise of 1850 and later in the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854).
		Popular sovereignty was often termed “squatter sovereignty” by its critics, which included proslavery Southerners and many New Englanders.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h228.html (307 words)

	Popular sovereignty Information (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Popular sovereignty (also known as squatter 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).
		In U.S. history, the terms popular sovereignty and the equivalent but more disparaging squatter sovereignty refer generally to the right claimed by the squatters, or actual residents, of a territory of the United States to make their own laws.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Popular_sovereignty (591 words)

	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)

	Sovereignty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This is known as popular sovereignty; it may be exercised directly, as in a popular assembly, or, more commonly, indirectly through the election of representatives to government.
		Sovereignty, or the general will, is inalienable, for the will cannot be transmitted; it is indivisible, since it is essentially general; it is infallible and always right, determined and limited in its power by the common interest; it acts through laws.
		De jure sovereignty is the legal right to do so; de facto sovereignty is the ability in fact to do so (which becomes of special concern upon the failure of the usual expectation that de jure and de facto sovereignty exist at the place and time of concern, and rest in the same organization).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sovereignty (2499 words)

	Political Affairs Magazine - Globalisation and Popular Sovereignty (Site not responding. Last check: )
		For us, popular sovereignty is the ability of progressive anti-monopoly forces to transform the sovereign democratic institutions of their country in order to meet the economic and social needs of the people.
		Popular sovereignty reverberates through the Communist Manifesto, where Marx and Engels call upon the proletariat to win the battle of democracy, to constitute itself as the nation, to take state power in order to wrest economic and social power from the capitalist class.
		In the present day, popular sovereignty is the struggle to impose the will of the working class and its allies - the vast majority of the nation - over monopoly capital.
	www.politicalaffairs.net /article/view/343/1/66 (1847 words)

	The Real Threat to U.S. Sovereignty
		The concept of "sovereignty" is at the center of this debate, but I haven't seen anyone really define the term very well, much less to look at what it means to us in the United States.
		Sovereignty includes not only our right to feel safe against a foreign army's invasion and to vote for those who make our laws, but it also touches a family's daily economic life, the right to own property, and to work and invest in private businesses.
		Popular sovereignty, as conceived in the Bill of Rights, is actually strengthened by GATT's dispute settlement procedures.
	www.heritage.org /Research/InternationalOrganizations/HL497.cfm (2741 words)

	Long Live the New Iraq!
		Popular sovereignty is a basic idea of democracy.
		Popular sovereignty means that the people are the ultimate source of the authority of their government.
		Therefore, popular sovereignty LIMITS THE POWERS OF In a democracy the People delegate their authority to government ONLY FOR THE PURPOSES set forth in their constitution.
	www.cpa-iraq.org /democracy/Popular_Soverignty.html (275 words)

	Reply to Popular Mechanics re 9/11
		Popular Mechanics' "Fact" tries to arouse horror in the reader at the thought of people in the lobbies being burned by flaming jet fuel, but the only "factual" claim here is that (a) the elevator shafts were damaged and (b) burning jet fuel "travelled" down them and caused damage to the lobbies and killed people.
		Popular Mechanics repeats the official story that the towers collapsed because the fires heated the steel so that it became like hot toffee, whereas it is demonstrable that the fires never burned hot enough to cause the steel to get anywhere near the point of failure.
		Popular Mechanics attempts to explain witness reports of a "white jet" in the skies over Shanksville by claiming that this was a private plane investigating the crash of UA 93 at the request of the FAA, whereas that jet was likely a USAF A-10 Thunderbolt.
	www.serendipity.li /wot/pop_mech/reply_to_popular_mechanics.htm (16873 words)

	Chapter 18
		Popular sovereignty meant that the sovereign people of a territory should determine the statues of slavery.
		It was popular with politicians because it was a comfortable compromise between the abolitionists and the slaver-holders.
		Within the Compromise of 1850, California was admitted as a free state and the territories of New Mexico and Utah were open to slavery on the basis of popular sovereignty.
	www.apnotes.net /ch18.html (1254 words)

	popular sovereignty — Infoplease.com
		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.
		Gore: popular sovereignty, fundamental law, and the post-election battle for the presidency.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/history/A0839723.html (346 words)

	Popular Sovereignty
		Popular sovereignty is a political term that simply means that the “people are the rulers.” This term is usually used in reference to political issues that are settled by popular vote or to governments based on the concept of democracy.
		The federal government utilized popular sovereignty in both the Compromise of 1850 and again in the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854.
		As a result of this violence, usually referred to as Bleeding Kansas, it became clear to most Americans and government leaders that popular sovereignty was an unlikely solution to the slavery issue.
	www.ohiohistorycentral.org /entry.php?rec=2122 (281 words)

	From Popular Sovereignty to the Sovereignty of Law
		From Popular Sovereignty to the Sovereignty of Law
		Analyzing the "democratic" features and institutions of the Athenian democracy in the fifth century B.C., Martin Ostwald traces their development from Solon's judicial reforms to the flowering of popular sovereignty, when the people assumed the right both to enact all legislation and to hold magistrates accountable for implementing what had been enacted.
		Martin Ostwald is W. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Classics at Swarthmore College, Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and author of Autonomia: Its Genesis and Early History (1982).
	www.ucpress.edu /books/pages/2043.html (249 words)

	EDSITEment - Lesson Plan
		Stephen Douglas argued that popular sovereignty was neither a new nor controversial approach to organizing federal territories, but one rooted in American self-government and recently endorsed by northerners and southerners alike in the Compromise Measures of 1850.
		Popular sovereignty, what Stephen Douglas called "the great principle of self-government," was the main idea behind the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
		Stephen Douglas reflected on the progress of popular sovereignty in the Kansas territory in 1858, the year Congress debated whether or not to accept the pro-slavery constitution devised at Lecompton.
	edsitement.neh.gov /view_lesson_plan.asp?id=661 (2770 words)

	SSRN-The People or the State?: Chisholm V. Georgia and Popular Sovereignty by Randy Barnett
		It adopted an individual concept of popular sovereignty rather than the modern view that limits popular sovereignty to collective or democratic self-government.
		It denied that the State of Georgia was a sovereign entitled, like the King of England, to assert immunity from a lawsuit brought by a private citizen.
		In this essay, I offer several reasons: Constitutional law is taught by doctrine rather than chronologically; law professors have reason to privilege the Marshall Court; and the Court's individualist view of popular sovereignty is thought to have been repudiated by the adoption of the Eleventh Amendment.
	papers.ssrn.com /sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=969557 (292 words)

	SSRN-Rejecting the Myth of Popular Sovereignty and Applying an Agency Model to Direct Democracy by Glen Staszewski
		Rather, such measures are conceived, drafted, and vigorously promoted by identifiable initiative proponents, who often represent particular special interests and may not even live in the communities in which their measures are proposed.
		The myth of popular sovereignty in direct democracy should be rejected.
		Rejecting the myth of popular sovereignty in direct democracy would alleviate many of the problems of judicial review that commentators have identified.
	www.ssrn.com /abstract=405520 (499 words)

	Popular Sovereignty - National Constitution Center
		Learn more about Popular Sovereignty in the Interactive Constitution.
		These words are contained in the Constitution's Preamble and give expression to the doctrine of popular sovereignty, or rule by the people.
		The Constitution's Framers crafted a governing document, which they submitted for popular ratification, based on the conception that ultimate political authority resides not in the government or in any single government official, but rather, in the people.
	www.constitutioncenter.org /explore/BasicGoverningPrinciples/PopularSovereignty.shtml (153 words)

	Main Issues [Topic 1 Popular Sovereignty and the Emperor System] \| Birth of the Constitution of Japan
		Along with these, in draft proposals written by political and citizens' groups there were calls for popular sovereignty and the elimination or change of the Emperor System.
		There was also the Constitution Investigation Association's draft which set forth the idea of popular sovereignty along with setting up the Emperor with authority limited to that of a national ceremonial position, which might be considered a model for the current Emperor System (Constitution Investigation Association, "Outline of Constitution Draft"
		And, "the sovereignty of the people's will" was declared in the Preamble.
	www.ndl.go.jp /constitution/e/ronten/01ronten.html (1032 words)

	Popular Sovereignty
		Idea popularized by Stephen A. Douglas that territories and states could decide whether they would allow slavery.
		The idea was in direct contradiction with the Dred Scott Decision, which was the law of the land.
		Read about the causes, see the heroes, and share the horror.
	www.socialstudiesforkids.com /wwww/us/popularsovereigntydef.htm (59 words)

	Definition of popular sovereignty - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
		Definition of popular sovereignty - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
		Learn more about "popular sovereignty" and related topics at Britannica.com
		See a map of "popular sovereignty" in the Visual Thesaurus
	www.m-w.com /dictionary/popular+sovereignty (80 words)

	Popular Sovereignty (Sovranty)
		For that on-the-horizon reason, and for all the reasons of current and increasing negative impact upon American culture, integration, unity, and quality of life, America should not be concerned with the self-serving objections of its neighbors, or its politicians, when it comes to protecting and insuring its sovereignty.
		"Hi, I am writing a paper on popular sovereignty and I was looking at your website.
		I was agreeing to everything you were saying until I got to the Mexico part.
	popularsovranty.com (9482 words)

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