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Popular Sovereignty Controversy

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Popular sovereignty was first named “squatter sovereignty” by John C. Calhoun and that name was adopted by its rivals. The more familiar meaning of popular sovereignty is that the government is created for the people and by the people. But before the civil war, popular sovereignty was referred to as a political policy that the people who live in a specific area should chose how they are governed. Then in U.S History, it was applied mainly to the idea the settlers of federal lands should decide the relations under which they would join the Union, but mostly applied to the position of free or slave. Congress attempted to make popular sovereignty the “law of the land” with the Compromise of 1850.
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