What was Stephen A. Douglas's view on slavery?

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What was Stephen A. Douglas's view on slavery?

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Answer 1 · 2017-07-02T19:41:48

He favored popular sovereignty to determine if it should be legal or not

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Douglas defended the idea that popular sovereignty should be the key process on which the legitimacy of the institution should depend. He included this doctrine in the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 thus repealing the 1820 Missouri compromise.

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