popular sovereignty, in U.S. history, doctrine under which the status of slavery in the territories was to be determined by the settlers themselves. Although the doctrine won wide support as a means of avoiding sectional conflict over the slavery issue, its meaning remained ambiguous, since proponents disagreed as to the stage of territorial development at which the decision should be made. Stephen A. Douglas Douglas, Stephen Arnold, 1813–61, American statesman, b. Brandon, Vt. Senatorial Career

He was admitted to the bar at Jacksonville, Ill., in 1834. After holding various state and local offices he became a U.S.
..... Click the link for more information. , principal promoter of the doctrine, wanted the choice made at an early stage of settlement; others felt that it should be made just before each territory achieved statehood. First proposed in 1847 by Vice President George Dallas and popularized by Lewis Cass in his 1848 presidential campaign, the doctrine was incorporated in the Compromise of 1850 Compromise of 1850. The annexation of Texas to the United States and the gain of new territory by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo at the close of the Mexican War (1848) aggravated the hostility between North and South concerning the question of the extension of
..... Click the link for more information. and four years later was an important feature of the Kansas-Nebraska Act Kansas-Nebraska Act, bill that became law on May 30, 1854, by which the U.S. Congress established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska. By 1854 the organization of the vast Platte and Kansas river countries W of Iowa and Missouri was overdue.
..... Click the link for more information. . Douglas called it "popular sovereignty," but proslavery Southerners, who wanted slavery extended into the territories, contemptuously called it "squatter sovereignty."

popular sovereignty

Political doctrine that allowed the settlers of U.S. federal territories to decide whether to enter the Union as free or slave states. It was applied by Sen. Stephen A. Douglas as a means to reach a compromise through passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Critics of the doctrine called it “squatter sovereignty.” The resulting violence between pro- and antislavery factions (see Bleeding Kansas) showed its failure as a workable compromise. See also Dred Scott decision.

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But the modern doctrine of popular sovereignty is also based on the fatal delusion that the people in their collective capacity are somehow capable of directly governing themselves.

Constant's middle path by Mahoney, Daniel J. / New Criterion

Gordon traces this doctrine of popular sovereignty back to ancient Greece and Rome, although "the people" was a much narrower construction in earlier times than it is in our age of universal suffrage and automatic voter registration.

Controlling the State: Constitutionalism from Ancient Athens to ... by Wagner, Richard E. / Independent Review

The new doctrine of popular sovereignty coincided with the doctrine of the rights of men, that promoted, together with the theory of division of powers, the political and legal limitation of power with the purpose of moderating its exercise to protect people's freedom.

Foreword: national sovereignty and globalization by de la Madrid H., Miguel / Houston Journal of International Law

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