What was popular sovereignty?

a) a system that allowed congress to decide which states would be slave states and which would not

b) a term that refers to the popular vote affecting the outcome of presidential elections

c) a belief that slavery was not a moral practice

d) a system that permitted settlers in each territory to decide whether to allow or prohibit slavery

a term that refers to the popular vote affecting the outcome of presidential elections

Explanation:

Popular sovereignty is the supreme, inalienable right of the people to determine their fate, to be the only, independent bearer and spokesman of the supreme power in the state and society. From this definition, firstly, it follows that popular sovereignty inherent in such basic features as supremacy, inalienability, unity and independence; secondly, the recognition of the people as the subject of power.

  Thus, the essence of the idea of popular sovereignty consists in recognizing the people as the source of the highest political power in society and their (people) independence from any individual and group subjects of political relations. The supremacy of the people's power and independence includes the combination in the sovereignty of the rights and freedoms of the people to independently decide the issues of their lives.

   The real fulfillment of the principle of the sovereignty of the people consists in the realization by the people of their political function as a source of power:

- the people own constituent and constitutional power in the state;

- people choose their representatives and can periodically replace them;

as university of miami psychologists debra lieberman and adam smith pointed out in a recent article in the journal current directions in psychological science, humans have social and psychological mechanisms to deter incest. with very few exceptions, marriages between brothers and sisters and between parents and their children are verboten in every human culture. the primary psychological anti-incest mechanism is the yuck response. even the idea of sex with their mom or dad, bro or sis is upsetting to most people. the psychologist jonathan haidt has found that nearly everyone is repelled by the prospect of brother-sister sex, even in hypothetical situations in which there is no chance of pregnancy).

the biological cost of incest

this raises an interesting question: just what’s so bad about incest? sure, having sex with your dad or your sister seems gross — but why? some anthropologists have argued that incest taboos are learned social conventions. this explanation, however, doesn’t make sense to me as it does not explain the widespread existence of anti-incest mechanisms in creatures ranging from cockroaches to chimpanzees. second, the incest taboo is about as close to a universal law as human moral rules get.

why should mechanisms to avoid incest be so widespread both in nature and across human societies? the answer is simple. the problem with having sex close with relatives is that there is an astonishingly high chance that your offspring will be born with a serious birth defect.

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