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Believers in popular sovereignty proposed that the future of slavery in a territory should be decided by?
a territory's voters
The Illinois senator who proposed the use of popular sovereignty in determining a state's slave status was?
Stephen Douglas
Who was the senator that proposed popular sovereignty as the solution to slaverys expansion?
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.
What is it called when the people have the power to make decisions about government?
popular sovereignty
What power is exercised when state legislatures or national conventions vote for or against a constitution amendment?
popular sovereignty
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