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Senator Lewis Cass of Michigan proposed one solution. Cass suggested that the citizens of each new territory should be allowed to decide for themselves if they wanted to permit slavery or not. This idea came to be called popular sovereignty.
The person that proposed the idea was Senator StephenA. Douglas. He wanted to abandon the MKissouri Compromise and let the settlers in each territory vote on whether to allow slavery.
The term of popular sovereignty was not coined by Senator Stephen A. Douglas. It was coined by Senator Lewis Cass of Michigan He ran as the Democrat for the US presidency in 1848. He lost to Zachary Taylor.
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act