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Popular sovereignty was the idea that people settling in a territory should vote on whether or not to allow slavery there. true or false

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True

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False.

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That is an example of how popular soverignty can be implemented, but not the only one. We should not see popular soverignty only as the fact of people voting on whether or not to allow slavery, but also voting and participating via other means to decide the actions taken by a goverment on critical topics. That is the actual definition of popular soverignty: Let the people decide.

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