| 单词 | squatter sovereignty |
| 释义 | > as lemmassquatter sovereignty squatter sovereignty n. U.S. the right claimed by the inhabitants of newly-formed territories to settle for themselves the question of slavery or other institutions. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > a or the system of government > direct rule, devolution, or trusteeship > [noun] > squatter sovereignty squatter sovereignty1854 1854 in Rep. 200, Ho. Representatives 34th Congr., 1st Sess. 954 We are in favor of bona fide squatter sovereignty. 1860 J. R. Lowell Election in Nov. in Prose Wks. (1890) V. 25 The Pro-Slavery party..here..represents Squatter-Sovereignty, and there the power of Congress over the Territories. 1894 J. Fiske Hist. Amer. 342 The doctrine of ‘squatter sovereignty’; not Congress, but the ‘squatters’ were to be the supreme authority on the great question. It was the principle of ‘local option’ applied to slavery. < as lemmas |
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