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How did popular sovereignty propose to fix the issue of slavery in the
western territories

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Popular sovereignty is one of the principles of democracy. It proposes to fix the issue of slavery in the western territories of the United States by suggesting that residents of territory through their elected representatives, and not the federal government, should be the ones to determine whether their territory becomes a free state or slave state.

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