Question

Which sentence best describes popular sovereignty?

A.The will of the people should dictate who would be governor.

B.The people that live in a territory should choose whether to allow slavery or not.

C.The president should make decisions about slavery.

D.The popular vote is more important than the electoral vote.

I think the answer is A or B

Answer 1

what you think

Answer 2

guess

Answer 3

Its A it cannot be be Pop. Sov means that people give the right to rule belections

Answer 4

Popular sovereignty or the sovereignty of the people's rule is the principle that the authority of a state and its government is created and sustained by the consent of its people, through their elected representatives (Rule by the People), who are the source of all political power

Answer 5

its A hands down

Answer 6

the doctrine that sovereign power is vested in the people and that those chosen to govern, as trustees of such power, must exercise it in conformity with the general will. definition

Answer 7

It could be C too.

Answer 8

"Popular sovereignty is the idea that the people within a geographic territory should be able to make decisions about how they are represented or governed. The idea is to maintain the consent of the people through elected representatives. Therefore the notion of popular sovereignty is represented in the notion that "The people that live in a territory should choose whether to allow slavery or not."

Answer 9

You see sovereignty is unrelated to slavery and while an elected president can make desitions about slavery The question is about the BEST stament about the concept and the concept is about the way peopl become governers so A and D are the main chouses

Answer 10

You are right that b is a very good example of Pop. Sov.