A very small percentage of the American people can in this respect permanently thwart the will of an enormous majority, and there can be no justification for such a condition on any possible theory of popular Sovereignty.
No good American denies the desirability of popular sovereignty and of a government which should somehow represent the popular will.
This was the theory of Popular Sovereignty, whose ablest exponent was Stephen Douglas.
And this overthrow of all popular rights is done in the name of Popular Sovereignty.
Sir, all this was done in the name of Popular Sovereignty.
With some it was openly the extension of Slavery; and with others it was openly the establishment of Freedom, under the guise of Popular Sovereignty.
Urged as opening the doors to slave-masters with their slaves, it was a swindle of Popular Sovereignty in its asserted doctrine.
Political democracy was investigated in terms of popular sovereignty, political equality, popular consultation, and majority rule, and the political system was judged on the basis of these principles.
It suggests the use of popular sovereignty, political equality, popular consultation, and majority rule as criteria for democracy.
Popular sovereignty, political equality, and popular consultation--these were the basic elements of fair play.
Popular sovereignty, in its qualified eighteenth-century sense, was a basic characteristic of the political democracy which existed on this frontier.
All were cordially united upon the great doctrine of popular sovereignty, which is the vital principle of our free institutions.
They are not to be charged to the great principle of popular sovereignty.
It is the principle of the Kansas-Nebraska bill; the principle of popular sovereignty; and the principle at the foundation of all popular government.
It marks his acuteness as a politician that he already realized what a fatal stab the Dred Scott decision had given his vaunted principle of "Popular Sovereignty," with which he justified his famous repeal of the Missouri Compromise.
The 'Popular Sovereignty' party, or Douglas Democracy, said: The people shall do what they choose about this matter.
They tolerated Douglas and his 'popular sovereignty ' ten years longer, when they found it even a more dangerous heresy, and threw him overboard.
On the following day Mr. Lincoln, as the champion of the opponents of Popular Sovereignty, was selected to represent those who disagreed with the new legislation, and to answer Douglas.
Paine was back in the old regions of a social contract, and of a popular sovereignty antecedent to government.
And vast credit is taken by our friend, the Judge, in regard to his support of it, when he declares the last years of his life have been, and all the future years of his life shall be, devoted to this matter of Popular Sovereignty.
Let us for a moment inquire into this vast matter of Popular Sovereignty.
He told Southerners that by his happy theory of "popular sovereignty" he had educated the public mind, and accomplished the repeal of the Missouri Compromise.
This necessarily demolished the rival theory of "popular sovereignty," which the Douglas Democrats had adopted, not without shrewdness, as being far better suited to the Northern mind.
It thus upheld the doctrine of "popular sovereignty" which Mr. Douglas had announced as the very spirit of the Act organizing Kansas and Nebraska.
But would this be true to that principle of "popular sovereignty" which was the very essence of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This bill was merely the full expression of what Douglas had aimed at in 1854 and of what was nicknamed "popular sovereignty"--the right of the locality to choose for itself between slave and free labor.
Not so, however, the great exponent of popular sovereignty, Douglas.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "popular sovereignty" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
