CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLE #1 - POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY:
ORIGINATING FROM THE WILMOT PROVISO DEBATE, THE DEMOCRAT LEWIS CASS OF MICHIGAN, COINED THE TERM "POPULAR
SOVEREIGNTY" TO PORTRAY THE RESOLUTION HE SAW FIT: "LET THE PEOPLE OF THE TERRITORIES THEMSELVES DECIDE WHETHER SLAVERY
WOULD BE PERMITTED." THE SOLUTION APPEARED FLAWLESS. IN THE CHAMPIONED DEMOCRACY BEING DEVELOPED, LETTING THE PEOPLE
DECIDE WAS AN IMPLICIT AND GLARING EXPLANATION.
"WE THE PEOPLE" REFLECTS A REVOLUTIONARY NEW IDEA: THAT A GOVERNMENT GETS ITS AUTHORITY FROM THE PEOPLE. THIS PRINCIPLE,
KNOWN AS POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY STATES THAT THE PEOPLE HAVE THE RIGHT TO ALTER OR ABOLISH THEIR GOVERNMENT."
I. EXPLAIN THE OUTLINED PRINCIPLE RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES GUARANTEED TO CITIZENS (3-4. SENTENCES).



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