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  • is the principle now known as "popular sovereignty," an idea heavily supported by U.S. Senator Stephen A. Douglas, chairman of the ...
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  • allow slavery, in the name of "popular sovereignty" or rule of the ... above all, a fervent believer in popular sovereignty: the policy of letting ...
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  • were led to articulate notions of popular sovereignty by means of a social ... theory, based on the conception of popular sovereignty, defined as indivisible ...
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  • further endorsed the doctrine of “popular sovereignty” for the New Mexico ... territories would be determined by popular sovereignty, meaning that the ...
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  • with Douglas, and had insisted on popular sovereignty as a condition for ... Douglas defended his doctrine of popular sovereignty as a means of promoting ...
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  • Rousseau tied the concept of general will directly to sovereignty ... * Popular sovereignty ==References== *Alexander, Gerard. The sources ...
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  • an elaborate theory of government by popular sovereignty and challenged the ... St. Peter as Nicholas V after a supposed popular election on May 12, 1328 ...
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  • or constitutional, rather than the popular sovereignty asserted by the revolutionary ... revolution. Compared with Hébert's popular festivals, this austere ...
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  • Carazo came to power on May 8, 1978, with popular support for reform ... had failed to protect Costa Rica's sovereignty. Further, Carazo's ...
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  • The Federalist's Vision of Popular Sovereignty in the New American ... * Potter, Kathleen O. The Federalist's Vision of Popular Sovereignty ...
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  • word was first widely used to describe the popular uprising of Palestinian ... , the expected progress towards full sovereignty did not follow nor, according ...
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  • expanded influence without asserting sovereignty. Similar concessions, ... Hong Kong would leapfrog China's most popular port in Canton. By 1880 ...
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  • put forward a doctrine of popular sovereignty and equal opportunity: ... 3. The principle of all sovereignty resides essentially in the nation ...
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  • later become a military officer and a popular writer of fiction. ... is by his teaching that he exercises his sovereignty. In the remaining divisions ...
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  • all claims to secular power, and sovereignty formally passed to the ... trepang (sea slugs, Holothuria spp.), a popular ingredient for soups and ...
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  • the teachings of Handsome Lake became popular among Oneida. Handsome Lake ... The cheaper gasoline made the gas station popular among the community, and ...
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  • further defined the concept of popular sovereignty which would soon evolve ... supporting either the proviso or popular sovereignty, and positive federal ...
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  • They shouted out such slogans as "Struggle for the sovereignty ... by the United States in 1922, and the sovereignty of Shandong was returned ...
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  • miles (52 km²) of which is under the sovereignty of France and 17 square ... has 23 seats, with members elected by popular vote to serve five-year terms. ...
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  • the Missouri Compromise lacked ongoing popular support and merely delayed ... back again toward their old state sovereignty principles and to prepare ...
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  • attention of South Koreans. North Korean popular opinion has no voice; the ... governments, presumed territorial sovereignty over the region.Erik W ...
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  • and gave generously to the poor. He was a popular Pope, who tried to serve ... for his piety, his election as Pope was a popular choice, one which Paul Afiarta ...
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  • dramatically. Since the 1990s, Korean popular music, TV drama, and films ... Faced with mounting popular discontent, in October 1945, Hodge established ...
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  • was a leading supporter of the Doctrine of Popular Sovereignty, which held that the people who lived in a territory should decide whether or not to ...
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  • U.S. Congress, which maintains ultimate sovereignty over Puerto Rico. Under ... the political status of Puerto Rico. The Popular Democratic Party (Spanish: ...
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  • English Romantic lyrics that were rather popular in America at the time. ... :Did seem to promise sovereignty and fame— :Yet no tradition hath ...
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  • exists a Second Chamber constituted on a popular instead of hereditary basis ... origins (an emanation of parliamentary sovereignty) would not apply. ...
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  • of progress, social evolutionism became a popular conception in the nineteenth ... The Great Man approach to history was most popular with professional historians ...
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  • There are a number of popular misconceptions about Magna Carta, such ... of income, neither of which made him popular at home. Worse, to recoup ...
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  • According to Korean legal thought, de jure sovereignty was not transferred ... ==In popular culture== An Jung-geun's memory has been commemorated ...
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  • Sovereignty disputes between Argentina and Chile involving the waters ... in Salvador Allende's overthrown Popular Unity government were sent ...
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  • face of English theories of inalienable popular and clerical rights. ... *Sovereignty *Mandate of Heaven *Robert Filmer *Separation of powers ...
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  • into two island groups based on national sovereignty. The San Juan Islands ... the American, Charles Wilkes. Several sovereignty disputes occurred between ...
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  • in Europe and the smallest French-speaking sovereignty. ... by the Treaty of Vienna, Monaco's sovereignty was recognized by the ...
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  • the failure of the Darien Scheme and the popular perception in Scotland that ... The Treaty was not universally popular in Scotland. Many petitions ...
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  • Avignon is a commune in southern France with a population of 89,300 in the city, itself, and a population of 290,466 in the metropolitan area. ...
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  • and socialism in general gained increasing popular support, mostly from the ... citizens), can be reconciled with a conception of sovereignty. ...
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  • at-large must control the language; popular sovereignty in government must ... and pronounce words. It was the most popular American book of its time; ...
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  • In settling and establishing a stable sovereignty, called today the ... for levying tribute and extinguishing popular discontent. Civil and military ...
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  • aggression, aimed at restoring Christian sovereignty over the Holy Land. The ... eventually manifested in the overwhelming popular support for the First Crusade ...
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  • Kingdom from 1842 until the transfer of sovereignty to the People's Republic ... discussed the issue of Hong Kong's sovereignty, and in 1984, the two ...
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  • obscurity, eclipsed by the increasingly popular veneration of Osiris, Horus ... of patronage and influence with his more popular contemporary. This veracity ...
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  • equality on which the theory of original popular sovereignty, and the concept of contractual monarchy, was based. Technically, the constituents of the ...
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  • words in all cases are the same. The most popular edition of the Qur'an ... # Al-Mulk (The Sovereignty, Control), 30 ayat, two rukus, Makkan sura ...
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  • in order to protect Siam’s sovereignty from British and French ... Contrary to the popular belief held by some Westerners, King Mongkut ...
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  • disputes over land ownership and sovereignty led to a series of armed ... After 1840, many issues to do with sovereignty and land ownership remained ...
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  • powers or associated with the rightful sovereignty of Great Britain. In Welsh ... and its name have become widespread in popular culture, and used in fiction ...
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  • to be a country of its people under popular sovereignty; they were the earliest ... which effectively became their prison. The popular reaction was intense, and ...
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  • #039;s most widely disseminated and most popular product, now averaging almost ... ; Dependencies and Areas of Special Sovereignty: This category is ...
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  • (also known as the Long Juju Shrine), popular in midwest and southeast ... This activity became very popular as coastal Niger Delta city-states ...
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  • commonly accepted practices. The loss of sovereignty by the nation state to ... directly into the reconstitution of popular life, of entertainment, ...
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  • politics, and defense of national sovereignty. The period of his leadership ... * Purnell, Jennie "Popular Resistance to the Privatization of ...
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  • Papers, No. 10 first appeared in popular newspapers. It was first ... Madison notes that the principle of popular sovereignty should prevent ...
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  • Persian sovereignty lasted until the Persians were defeated at the ... (Bazaar of coppersmiths) is particularly popular, and many interesting items ...
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  • that the city which is honored with the Sovereignty and the Senate and enjoys ... of Constantinople, Acacius, wavered; but a popular outcry led by rigidly orthodox ...
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  • published soon after and became extremely popular all over Europe. It was ... works were translated into Hebrew and were popular in the 1940s among Mandatory ...
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  • of the Sikhs, with marble and gold from which the popular name of the "Golden Temple" is derived. He was also known as Sher-e-Punjab ...
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  • Agrippa I, unlike Herod, had been widely popular among the Jews, although ... hopes for the restoration of national sovereignty. In Christian tradition ...
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  • Morocco and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia al-Hamra ... which had historical claims of sovereignty over the territory, argued ...
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  • west from the former eastern provinces. Sovereignty was in the hands of the ... . Another society of note (and very popular during the late 1980s) was ...
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  • Teutonic Knights, originally under the sovereignty of Poland, later ruled ... Knights were forced to acknowledge the sovereignty of King Casimir IV Jagiellon ...
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  • on either side. The 1905 partition was popular among the Muslims in the ... a series of provinces each demanding sovereignty would take too long and ...
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  • eager to maintain the Chu state's sovereignty, he advocated a policy ... Popular legend has it that villagers carried their dumplings and boats ...
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  • Qing Dynasty of China, which exercised sovereignty over Tibet during the ... out the Mongols, thus gaining a titular sovereignty over Tibet, leaving representatives ...
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  • of the law. While Rousseau argues that sovereignty should be in the hands ... His novel Heliose was tremendously popular among 18th century Parisians ...
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  • The area came under French sovereignty in the 1880s. Franco-Italian ... state is the president, who is elected by popular vote for a seven-year term ...
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  • depart from their support for state sovereignty in one area: State laws ... as "northern aggression," a popular phrase among Southerners ...
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  • consciousness that centers on "the sovereignty of God." In principle ... Calvinist theology is often identified in the popular mind as the ...
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  • At Australia's request, the United Kingdom transferred sovereignty ... government services and is elected by popular vote to serve four-year ...
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  • Adams lacked the genius for popular leadership shown by his second ... show, Americans new conception of popular sovereignty, now saw the people ...
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  • to Lenin's Bolsheviks in return for sovereignty over the Armenian cities ... (1919-1922) assured Turkey's sovereignty. The Treaty of Lausanne ...
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  • As the most popular and well-respected poets of his day, Jonson is ... on stage, but when published it proved popular and went through several ...
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  • Mount Himavat. But that theory has little popular support as early records ... tree and the Hindu god Subramanya, a popular deity in South India. ...
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  • While frequently frowned upon in the North, the Removal Act was popular in the South, where population growth and the discovery of gold on Cherokee ...
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  • In the late nineteenth century, Mackinac Island became a popular tourist ... than the strategic value. One of the most popular geologic formations is Arch ...
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  • 1994, the expected progress towards full sovereignty did not follow nor did ... change the attitudes of the populace. A popular and religious-based movement ...
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  • vote for independence. The deaths of such popular figures as Davy Crockett ... Mexico's new interest in Texas was not popular with the colonists ...
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  • interference led to the monarchy losing popular support and to its abolition ... The popular desire to unite all Greeks within the territory of their ...
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  • original word nor tune—of which remains popular in Canadian churches to this day. ... the contents are reproductions. It is a popular tourist attraction, drawing ...
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  • Zand dynasty, and had reasserted Persian sovereignty over the former Iranian ... in 1828, acknowledging Russian sovereignty over the entire South ...
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  • international law. It recognized the sovereignty of states, rather than ... Gomarists, who supported the ever more popular prince Maurice. In 1617 ...
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  • believed strongly in the need for Jewish sovereignty so that Jews could be ... operatives of Black September and PFLP (Popular Front for the Liberation ...
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  • Day feast. The traditional fox hunt was popular among both participants ... In Hong Kong, despite the transfer of sovereignty from the UK to China ...
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  • that it was naive to think that sovereignty and power was really vested ... Qutb also opposed the then popular ideology of Arab nationalism, having ...
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  • to the County of Barcelona, which ceded sovereignty over the valleys of Andorra ... which provided that Andorra's sovereignty be shared between the ...
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  • 039;checks and balances' or divided sovereignty (the People of the United ... * Levin, Daniel Lessard. Representing Popular Sovereignty: The Constitution ...
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  • de jure recognition for the new sovereignty. But, even following the ... nationalist groups with widespread popular support before 1939. ...
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  • and Portugal. But the trend changed as popular movements arose for the ... Considering that the princes had to sign away the sovereignty of states ...
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  • off the coast of Uruguay, is under Argentine sovereignty. ... maté, a stimulating tea-like beverage popular in many South American countries. ...
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  • National Assembly on a platform of popular sovereignty. ... of the Gospel of Mark that captured popular attention. Some key themes ...
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  • Ahura Mazda presenting the diadem of sovereignty to Ardashir I ]] ... the theories. Haug's ideas were so popular that they are now almost ...
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  • Day (Yom Yerushalayim), and the most popular secular Hebrew song, "Jerusalem ... Countries that do not recognize Israeli sovereignty over some or all of the ...
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  • came to power in 1976. A referendum on sovereignty-association in 1980 was ... In August 2007, Canadian sovereignty in Arctic waters was challenged ...
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  • to later movements, the phenomenon of popular resentment and violence ... Vatican City as a fully independent sovereignty under the Holy See. The ...
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  • is seen as an infringement on national sovereignty; however, it exerts significant ... original charter which ratified national sovereignty. Nevertheless, the United ...
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  • to the detriment of the national sovereignty of recipient countries ... (apart from impeding the national sovereignty of recipients) attached ...
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  • Western ideas gave rise to a growing popular rights movement which called ... In spite of these institutional changes, sovereignty still resided in the emperor ...
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  • , Bahrain's largest and most popular political society, has a ... International Court of Justice granted sovereignty over the Hawar Islands ...
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  • the existence, territorial integrity and sovereignty of the state of Israel ... to Uganda by terrorists belonging to the Popular Front for the Liberation ...
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  • Bolshevik Russia accepted the loss of sovereignty and influence over Finland ... Seeckt had arranged, Stalin adopted the Popular Front policy, trying to ...
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