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Allowing people who live in an arrangement to vote to decide an issue is often referred to as a referendum or a local ballot initiative. This process empowers residents to express their preferences on specific matters, such as local policies, zoning changes, or community projects. It promotes democratic participation by giving individuals a direct voice in decisions that affect their lives and neighborhoods. Ultimately, this approach fosters community engagement and accountability in governance.
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What is the correct word for law allowing the people of Kanses and Nebraska to decide whether they would allow slavery in their territory?
The Missouri Compromise. Allowing the people to decide free or slave was Popular Sovereignty.
What is sovereightny?
Popular sovereignty is allowing the people to decide on the issue themselves by voting instead of having the government decide. In the US it was used by the government in the territories to the West because of the intense issue of slavery. The people could decide if they were a slave state or not, but because of a corruption in the voting Bloody Kansas erupted and the fighting did not stop until the Civil war broke out just a bit later.
What is exercised when more than fifty percent of the people vote for and decide an issue?
majority rule
What is exercised when more than fifty percent of the people vote and decide an issue?
majority rule
What is exercised when more than fifty percent of the people vote for and decide the issue?
majority rule
How did Stephen Douglas want to settle the crisis of slavery?
Stephen Douglas proposed the idea of popular sovereignty, allowing territories to vote on whether to allow slavery. He believed this would settle the issue by letting the people in each territory decide for themselves.
In the term popular soveriegnty what does sovereignty mean?
Popular sovereignty is allowing the people to decide on the issue themselves by voting instead of having the government decide. In the US it was used by the government in the territories to the West because of the intense issue of slavery. The people could decide if they were a slave state or not, but because of a corruption in the voting Bloody Kansas erupted and the fighting did not stop until the Civil war broke out just a bit later.
What two states were given permission to decide between slave and free as of the Compromise of 1850?
Senator Stephan A. Douglas was the author of rhw Kansas-Nebraska Act that called for popular sovereignty. This was the "buzz word" for allowing people in the Territories to vote on the slavery issue.
The doctrine that allowed people living in the territories to decide the issue of slavery through their governmental bodies was called?
Popular Sovereignty. -ssm466
What is the system where the residents vote to decide an issue?
A democrocy
On what issue did the convention decide to delay action until 1808?
It was delayed because of the dispute how to count the enslaved people. it was because of the " Slave Trade".
What statement best description of popular sovereignty?
the issue of slavery in the territories was to be decided through governmental bodies
