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his first wife was the daughter of a slave-holder, but Douglas himself was a champion of “popular sovereignty”, holding that it was up to the residents to decide whether a state should be slave or free, and his declaration that any territory could exclude slavery irrespective of the Supreme Court’s ruling cost him the support of many Southern Democrats.
su primera mujer era hija de un propietario de esclavos, pero el propio Douglas era un campeón de la «soberanía popular», sosteniendo que los residentes eran los que debían decidir si un estado debía ser libre o esclavista, y su declaración de que ningún territorio podía excluir la esclavitud independientemente de las leyes del Tribunal Supremo le costó el apoyo de muchos demócratas sureños.
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