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Senator Stephen A. Douglas' Dividing Line doctrine, often associated with his stance on popular sovereignty, proposed that the question of slavery's expansion into the territories should be determined by the settlers themselves rather than by federal legislation. This doctrine was articulated during the debates surrounding the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, which effectively repealed the Missouri Compromise and allowed for the possibility of slavery in areas previously designated as free. Douglas believed this approach would resolve sectional tensions by allowing local self-determination, but it ultimately intensified conflicts over slavery in the territories.

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