popular sovereignty

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• Popular Consent, Majority Rule, and Popular Sovereignty

  • Popular consent, majority rule, and popular sovereignty are related concepts that form the basis of democratic government.
  • Popular consent (or the consent of the governed), majority rule, and popular sovereignty are related concepts that form the basis of democratic government.
  • Popular sovereignty is thus a basic tenet of most democracies.
  • Thenceforth, American revolutionaries generally agreed and were committed to the principle that governments were legitimate only if they rested on popular sovereignty–that is, the sovereignty of the people.
  • Explain the significance of popular sovereignty and the consent of the governed for liberal democracy

• The Compromise of 1850

  • The Compromise of 1850 left the question of slave versus free states to popular sovereignty.
  • The territories of New Mexico and Utah would be organized on the basis of popular sovereignty.
  • By allowing popular sovereignty to determine slave or free states, the Senate basically guaranteed future discord over the sectional balance of power in the coming years.
  • In the Compromise of 1850, popular sovereignty was not defined as a guiding principle on the slave issue going forward.

• The Emergence of Abraham Lincoln

  • All seven debates primarily discussed the slavery issue, and for Lincoln, the debates provided an opportunity to articulate his position against the expansion of slavery into the territories, which bolstered his popularity with the Republicans and helped him secure the party's nomination in the 1860 presidential election.
  • As the author of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Douglas's aim in the debates was to defend his position that popular sovereignty was the best method to legislate on the expansion of slavery, regardless of the Dred Scott decision.
  • Lincoln argued that legislating slavery based on popular sovereignty would nationalize and perpetuate slavery in both the territories and in the Northern states.
  • Therefore, popular sovereignty and the Dred Scott decision were departures from policies of the past.
  • Addressing Douglas's accusations that he was an abolitionist, Lincoln countered that popular sovereignty and Dred Scott set dangerous precedents and that the nation could not exist perpetually as half slave and half free.

• Bleeding Kansas

  • The events later known as Bleeding Kansas were set into motion by the Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854, which nullified the Missouri Compromise and instead implemented the concept of popular sovereignty.
  • The principle of popular sovereignty stated that inhabitants of each territory or state should decide whether it would be a free or slave state.
  • The Compromise of 1850, however, had mandated that popular sovereignty would determine any new territory's slave or free status.
  • The initial purpose of the Kansas–Nebraska Act was to open up many thousands of new farms and facilitate the development of a Transcontinental Railroad in the Midwest Douglas and other representatives hoped that by tagging on the popular sovereignty mandate, they could evade having to confront the slave issue in the organization of the Kansas-Nebraska territory.

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act

  • The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 mandated that popular sovereignty would determine the slave or free status in the region.
  • Douglas (IL), repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and mandated that popular sovereignty would determine any new territory's slave or free status.
  • Douglas and other representatives hoped that by tagging on the popular sovereignty mandate, they could avoid confronting the slave issue in the organization of the Kansas-Nebraska territory.

• The Election of 1856

  • Buchanan embraced the relatively moderate popular sovereignty approach to the expansion of slavery in his election platform and warned that the Republican Party was a coalition of radical antislavery extremists that would force the country into Civil War.
  • Buchanan had won 45.3 percent of the popular vote and 174 electoral votes whereas Frémont had won 33.1 percent of the popular vote and 114 electoral votes.
  • Fillmore won 21.6 percent of the popular vote and eight electoral votes.

• "The People"

  • It has also been construed to mean something like "all under the sovereign jurisdiction and authority of the United States. " The phrase has been construed as affirming that the national government created by the Constitution derives its sovereignty from the people, as well as confirming that the government under the Constitution was intended to govern and protect "the people" directly as one society instead of governing only the states as political units.
  • The Court has also understood this language to mean that the sovereignty of the government under the U.S.
  • Thomas Hobbes was a theorist of "sovereignty" in early modern political thought.
  • Explain from whom or from where the national government derives its sovereignty under the Constitution

• "We the People"

  • The phrase can be seen as affirming that the national government the Constitution created derives its sovereignty from the people.
  • Similarly, the federal government, as an attribute of sovereignty, has the power to enforce those powers granted to it.
  • Thus, no state may interfere with the federal government's operations as though its sovereignty were superior to that of the federal government.
  • Sometimes, as a means to explain the US system of state sovereignty, the Supreme Court has even analogized the states as being foreign countries in relation to each other.
  • However, each state's sovereignty is limited by the US Constitution, which is the supreme law of both the United States as a nation and each state.

• Democracy in the U.S.

  • The United States is a federal constitutional republic in which the federal government shares sovereignty with the state governments.
  • The United States is a federal constitutional republic in which the President of the United States (the head of state and government), Congress, and judiciary share powers reserved to the national government, and the federal government shares sovereignty with the state governments.
  • In modern times, the electors virtually always vote with the popular vote of their state.