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Means all political power resides in the people

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Popular Sovereignty

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Popular sovereignty is the doctrine that sovereign power is vested in the people and that those chosen to govern, as trustees of such power, must exercise it in conformity with the general will.

Before the Civil War, a doctrine, held chiefly by the opponents of the abolitionists, that the people living in a territory should be free of federal interference determining domestic policy, especially with respect to slavery.

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