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.
Why is Stephen Douglas associated with the term called popular sovereignty? To allow the people of each US territory to vote whether a territory reaching statehood would be a free or slave state. It sounded reasonable enough, but it backfi â¦ red badly the first time it was tried, in thinly-populated Kansas, where people from outside the state came in and bought cheap properties so that they could vote.