The answer is People vote for representatives who will make decision on their behalf. This method became the basis of modern democratic government that we use today. In our current system, the people could not directly vote for the regulations. But, the people had the power to appoint the person (representatives) that held their interest.
This sounds like Buddhism
What theory promoted by Stephen Douglas would allow the people of the territory to allow or for bid slavery? The state of nature i think
The California gold rush turned "<span>San Francisco"</span> into perhaps the world's most diverse city.
It was in January 1848
when James W. Marshell at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma found a shiny metal (which
was gold). The news spread like a wild fire and it is said that an estimated
number of 300,000 folks flooded to California from around the US and abroad for
gold.