0
What else can I help you with?
The belief that political authority should rest with the people themselves is called?
Popular sovereignty
What is the belief that the people of a country should hold supreme power?
Popular sovereignty
Idea that states should have the final say on matters that affect their citizens?
popular sovereignty
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
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 people of each territory were allowed to decide whether it should be free or slave?
The Great Debate. I think.. (New respondent) Popular Sovereignty
Believers in popular sovereignty proposed that the future of slavery in a territory should be decided by?
a territory's voters
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.
Popular sovereignty meant that the people should be allowed to?
The idea that the political authority of government comes from the people.
The doctrine that the issue of slavery should be decided by the residents of a territory themselves not by the federal government?
popular sovereignty
