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popular sovereignty  

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  • Popular sovereignty is the theoretical principle that the people are sovereign and that government derives is legitimacy and power from them. In the context of the sectional crisis in the United States, the term referred to the proposed middle-ground solution to the slavery extension issue. [Source: Encyclopedia of U.S. Political History; Popular Sovereignty]

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