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The concept that a territory should be allowed to decide wheather to have slavery was known as?
popular sovereignty
The concept that a territory should be allowed to decide whether to have slavery known as?
Popular sovereignty
The belief that political authority should rest with the people themselves is called?
Popular sovereignty
The people of each territory were allowed to decide whether it should be free or slave?
The Great Debate. I think.. (New respondent) Popular Sovereignty
What is the belief that the people of a country should hold supreme power?
Popular sovereignty
What idea was that Citizens of each new territory should be allowed to decide if they wanted to permit slavery?
Popular Sovereignty
What allowed people in new states to decide if they would allow slavery or not?
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Why did popular sovereignty appeal to many Americans?
Popular Sovereignty is extremely important to the people of America due to the issues the lack of it had before, with the British monarchy. The concept of popular sovereignty claims that the power that government holds is only maintained by the people's consent.
The ideas that people within a state can and should determine a law within a state is?
popular sovereignty.
What was the notion that people should be able to vote on the matter of slavery in the territories called?
The notion that people should be able to vote on the matter of slavery in the territories was called popular sovereignty. Popular sovereignty is a doctrine rooted in the belief that every human being is sovereign.
The idea that people within a state can and should determine the laws within that state is referred to as?
The idea that people within a state can and should determine the laws within that state is referred to as popular sovereignty. Popular sovereignty is the principle that the people in a state can determine the laws within that state.
People living in a territory had the right to decide by voting if slavery be allowed?
Popular sovereignty is the principle that residents of a territory have the right to decide whether slavery should be permitted through a direct vote. It was a compromise proposed as part of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 to settle the debate over the extension of slavery into new territories.
