Now what is Judge Douglas Popular Sovereignty? It is, as a principle, …

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Now what is Judge Douglas Popular Sovereignty? It is, as a principle, no other than that, if one man chooses to make a slave of another man, neither that other man nor anybody else has a right to object. ✨ Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher (1977). Abraham Lincoln, a Documentary Portrait Through His Speeches and Writings, p.124, Stanford University Press
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