Norton and Company, Garrison, Zach. The Kansas City Public Library. Skip to main content. The missouri-kansas conflict You are here Encyclopedia. By Zach Garrison , University of Cincinnati. Encyclopedia Entry Kansas-Nebraska Act. New England Emigrant Aid Company. Reeder, Andrew Horatio. Lecompton Constitution. Timeline Event Kan. State Legislature Meets. Lincoln Visits Kansas. Government established by free choice of the people is expected to serve the people, who have sovereignty, or supreme power.
Popular sovereignty was asserted as a founding principle of the United States of America. The people of the several American states chose representatives to ratifying conventions who freely decided to approve the Constitution in the name of those who elected them.
Popular sovereignty was also included in Article V of the Constitution, which provides the means to amend the Constitution through the elected representatives of the people. Finally, popular sovereignty is reflected in two different parts of the Constitution that require members of Congress to be elected directly by the people: Article I pertaining to the House of Representatives and the 17th Amendment concerning election of senators.
The founding of the United States and the framing of its Constitution heralded the idea of popular sovereignty as the standard by which popular government should be established and sustained. The American example, exceptional in the late 18th century, has become a world-class standard of legitimacy for governments in the 21st century. The federal government utilized popular sovereignty in both the Compromise of and again in the Kansas-Nebraska Act of The United States outlawed slavery before New Mexico applied for statehood.
With the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the federal government authorized residents of the Kansas and Nebraska Territories to use popular sovereignty.
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