| 单词 | popular sovereignty |
| 释义 | popular sovereignty in British Englishnoun (in the pre-Civil War US) the doctrine that the inhabitants of a territory should be free from federal interference in determining their own domestic policy, esp in deciding whether or not to allow slavery popular sovereignty in American Englishnoun 1. the doctrine that sovereign power is vested in the people and that those chosen to govern, as trustees of such power, must exercise it in conformity with the general will 2. U.S. History (before the Civil War) a doctrine, held chiefly by the opponents of the abolitionists, that the people living in a territory should be free of federalinterference in determining domestic policy, esp. with respect to slavery Word origin [1840–50, Amer.]This word is first recorded in the period 1840–50. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: creationism, organizer, pylon, sensationalism, set pieceExamples of 'popular sovereignty' in a sentence |
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