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popular sovereignty

doctrine asserting the right of the people living in a newly organized territory to decide by vote of their territorial legislature whether or not slavery would be permitted there
States used popular sovereignty to determine whether slavery was permitted or not.
by Laurie catterson June 5, 2017
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