The Failure of Popular Sovereignty: Slavery, Manifest Destiny, and the Radicalization of Southern Politics by Christopher Childers

The Failure of Popular Sovereignty: Slavery, Manifest Destiny, and the Radicalization of Southern Politics

American Political Thought (University Press of Kansas)

Christopher Childers

348 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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As the expanding United States grappled with the question of how to determine the boundaries of slavery, politicians proposed popular sovereignty as a means of entrusting the issue to citizens of new territories. Christopher Childers now uses popu...

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