popular sovereignty
柯林斯詞典
1. N (in the pre-Civil War US) the doctrine that the inhabitants of a territory should be free from federal interference in determining their own domestic policy, esp in deciding whether or not to allow slavery (美國內戰(zhàn)前)民眾主權; 認為一個領土的居民應該擺脫聯(lián)邦干涉，自由決定內政，尤其是決定是否允許奴隸制度
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