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apr 30, 1850 - Popular Sovereignty

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the principle that the authority of a state and its government is created and sustained by the consent of its people, through their elected representatives Popular sovereignty was invoked in the Compromise of 1850 and later in the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)

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apr 30, 1850
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~ 175 years ago