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Author : Stephen Arnold Douglas
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Total Pages : 16 pages
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Download or read book The Dividing Line Between Federal and Local Authority ... written by Stephen Arnold Douglas and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen Arnold Douglas
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781290343466
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)
Download or read book Popular Sovereignty in the Territories the Dividing Line Between Federal and Local Authority written by Stephen Arnold Douglas and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author : Christopher Childers
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700618686
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Failure of Popular Sovereignty written by Christopher Childers and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2012-11-08 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the expanding United States grappled with the question of how to determine the boundaries of slavery, politicians proposed popular sovereignty as a means of entrusting the issue to citizens of new territories. Christopher Childers now uses popular sovereignty as a lens for viewing the radicalization of southern states' rights politics, demonstrating how this misbegotten offspring of slavery and Manifest Destiny, though intended to assuage passions, instead worsened sectional differences, radicalized southerners, and paved the way for secession. In this first major history of popular sovereignty, Childers explores the triangular relationship among the extension of slavery, southern politics, and territorial governance. He shows how, as politicians from North and South redesigned popular sovereignty to lessen sectional tensions and remove slavery from the national political discourse, the doctrine instead made sectional divisions intractable, placed the territorial issue at the center of national politics, and gave voice to an increasingly radical states' rights interpretation of the federal compact. Childers explains how politicians offered the idea of local control over slavery as a way to appease the South-or at least as a compromise that would not offend the states' rights constitutional scruples of southerners. In the end, that strategy backfired by transforming the South into a rigid sectional bloc dedicated to the protection and perpetuation of slavery-a political time bomb that eventually exploded into Civil War. Tracing the doctrine of popular sovereignty back to its roots in the early American republic, Childers describes the dichotomy between believers in local control in the territories and national control as first embodied in the 1787 Northwest Ordinance. Noting that the slavery extension issue had surfaced before but obviously not been resolved, he shows how the debate over this issue played out over time, complicated the relationship between the federal government and the territories, and radicalized sectional politics. He also provides new insight into such topics as Arkansas and Florida statehood, the early phases of California's statehood bid, and the emergence of John C. Calhoun's common property doctrine. Laced with new insights, Childers's study offers a coherent narrative of the formative moments in the slavery debate that have been seen heretofore as discrete events. His work stands at the intersection of political, intellectual, and constitutional history, unfolding the formative moments in the slavery debate to expand our understanding of the peculiar institution in the early republic.
Author : Jeremiah Sullivan Black
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Total Pages : 46 pages
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Download or read book Observations on Senator Douglas's Views of Popular Sovereignty, as Expressed in Harpers' Magazine, for September, 1859 written by Jeremiah Sullivan Black and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edmund S. Morgan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393347494
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)
Download or read book Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America written by Edmund S. Morgan and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1989-09-17 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The best explanation that I have seen for our distinctive combination of faith, hope and naiveté concerning the governmental process." —Michael Kamman, Washington Post This book makes the provocative case here that America has remained politically stable because the Founding Fathers invented the idea of the American people and used it to impose a government on the new nation. His landmark analysis shows how the notion of popular sovereignty—the unexpected offspring of an older, equally fictional notion, the "divine right of kings"—has worked in our history and remains a political force today.
Author : Stephen Arnold Douglas
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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book The Dividing Line Between Federal and Local Authority written by Stephen Arnold Douglas and published by . This book was released on 185? with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Stephen Green
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Total Pages : 32 pages
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Download or read book Territorial Policy written by James Stephen Green and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Co
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781013638817
Total Pages : 32 pages
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Download or read book Popular Sovereignty in the Territories. The Democratic Record ..; 2 written by Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Co and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Carl Schurz
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Total Pages : 22 pages
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Download or read book Douglas and Popular Sovereignty written by Carl Schurz and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Damon Wells
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292776357
Total Pages : 375 pages
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Download or read book Stephen Douglas written by Damon Wells and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1990-09-01 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen Douglas and the old Union lived out their last years together. It was the most critical time in the life of both the Illinois senator and his country. During most of the period 1857–1861 the American nation could still choose between adjustment of its sectional differences and civil war, and the man they called the Little Giant seemed the one statesman most likely to lead the country onto a course of compromise and reconciliation. But Douglas' intense involvement with the American political scene—his great accomplishments in enacting the Compromises of 1850 and 1854, and his victory in the senatorial campaign of 1858—tended at times to disguise a growing alienation from the mainstream of American political life. By 1857 that alienation had reached acute proportions. In part, Douglas fell victim to his own virtues. He sought to be a nationalist in an age of sectionalism; he preached the value of compromise when most Americans questioned its worth. In other respects, Douglas' political failures are less excusable. His attempt to convert an apparently amoral attitude toward slavery into a principle—popular sovereignty—found him dismissed by antislavery citizens as immoral and by proslavery citizens as unreliable. For too long, Douglas, professing to "care not" about the future of slavery, overlooked how much Americans could care once their consciences had been aroused or their way of life supposedly threatened. Douglas failed to win the presidential campaign of 1860 largely because he could satisfy neither the proponents nor the enemies of slavery. Yet if the last years of Douglas' life were marred by failure, he was not ultimately the tragic figure some historians have suggested. During the campaign of 1860 a profound change began to take place in Stephen Douglas. The outmoded nationalism he had preached for so long began to give way to Unionism. In his eventual support of Lincoln and his defense of the Union, Douglas at last found a policy worthy of his great talents. Damon Wells first became interested in Stephen Douglas in 1959 after seeing a Broadway dramatization of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates. Later, his studies convinced him that playwright and historian alike were often unfair to Douglas. If Lincoln was to be a hero, then Douglas had to be cast as a villain. This study fills the need for a fresh and dispassionate look at Douglas and provides a fairer assessment than can be reached by simply endorsing contradictory views of apologists and critics. It places particular emphasis on the Little Giant's struggle with President James Buchanan, the debates with Lincoln, the presidential campaign of 1860, Douglas' complex relationship with the South, and a careful analysis of the elusive and at times exasperating principle of popular sovereignty.
