Popular Sovereignty.
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the issue of slavery in the territories was to be decided through governmental bodies
It said were slavery was allowed in territories.
- A major difference in the Constitution of the confederacy was that it allowed slavery in the new territories.
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.
Territories
The doctrine you are referring to is popular sovereignty. This idea, championed by Senator Stephen Douglas in the mid-19th century, proposed that residents of a territory should be able to determine whether slavery would be permitted in that territory through a vote or legislative action. This doctrine played a significant role in the lead-up to the American Civil War.
the issue of slavery in the territories was to be decided through governmental bodies
It is the principle of Higher Law.
Stephen Douglas - Apex
The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide the issue of slavery by popular sovereignty. The people who lived in these territories would be able to vote on whether slavery would be allowed there. What effect did this have on Kansas?
The Higher Law doctrine stated that slavery should be excluded from the territories as contrary to a divine moral law standing above even the Constitution. Senator Seward proposed this doctrine in 1851.
It said were slavery was allowed in territories.
David Wilmot
Stephen Douglas' Freeport Doctrine referred to the proposal that territories had the right to refuse slavery if they chose. This was against a Supreme Court decision. The doctrine was espoused in his debates with Abraham Lincoln in 1858.
The individual territories can choose to abolish slavery in that territory if they descide they wish to do so. Evie
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 allowed voters in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether to allow slavery through popular sovereignty. This overturned the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which prohibited slavery in territories north of a certain latitude.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed settlers in those territories to decide whether or not to permit slavery through popular sovereignty, overturning the Missouri Compromise's restriction on slavery in certain territories. This led to violent conflicts between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers in Kansas, known as "Bleeding Kansas."