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The government gets its power from the people.
Helga Cruickshank
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From the people
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What term means to vote for or against slavery in a territory?
Popular sovereignty is the term that means people could determine, through voting themselves, where to allow slavery in a territory. Another term used is sovereignty of the people.
What term means allowing people to decide issues for themselves?
popular sovereignty
Is voting an example of popular sovereignty?
Popular sovereignty means people have a voice in the government and this means they have a voice to vote in the government
What sovereignty means the government is based on the consent of the governed?
Popular sovereignty
Popular sovereignty means that the power to govern comes from the constant of whom?
the people Popular sovereignty means that power is derived from the consent of the governed people.
What term means to allow a territory to decide for themselves whether to be a free state or a slave state?
look some where else.
What term means freedom for external control?
Sovereignty.
What term means freedom from external control?
sovereignty
What term is defined as the idea that all the power of the government lies with the people?
The term is popular sovereignty, but the concept is also defined by other theories that make the rights of the individual the basis for government.
What is it called when the people have the power to make decisions about government?
popular sovereignty
What was popular sovereignty in 1850?
The concept of popular sovereignty was introduced by the 1854 Kansas Nebraska Act. The term did not apply to any particular law or concept that was related to slavery. The term was coined by Illinois Senator Stephen A. Douglas.
How is popular sovereignty related to limited government?
In each of them the people were recognized as the sole source of authority for government.
