Norfolk County is a county located in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. At the 2010 census, the population was 670,850. Its county seat is Dedham. The county was named after the English county of the same name with the meaning northern folk. Two towns, Cohasset and Brookline, are exclaves.
Popular sovereignty. Popular sovereignty or the sovereignty of the people is the principle that the authority of the government is created and sustained by the consent of its people, who are the source of all political power.
The term popular sovereignty was not coined by Senator Douglas. Rather, in connection with slavery in the territories, the term was first used by presidential candidate and Michigan U.S. Senator Lewis Cass in his Nicholson Letter of 1847. But the term popular sovereignty is now closely tied to Douglas's legacy.