d uglas id that illustrates a point. in theory, we may have to agree with chief justice taney that in kst kansas and nebraska and any other western territories carved out from them, you're going to have to recognize that slavery can be taken there. however, nobody in those territories is obliged to pass, to adopt, to implement the police measures necessary to enforce slavery. so douglas reasons all the territory has to do to go back to exercising popular sovereignty is to refuse to enact the police regulations that enforced slavery. because of the state legislature refuses to do that, no slaveowner slave in their right mind is going to take their slave into that place. it is a kind of negative populous sovereignty. so reasoning that way for steven a. douglas, popular sovereignty lives, which is not what james buchanan wanted. so buchanan and douglas come to loggerheads. the president of the united states versus the most powerful senator in the senate, both of the same political parties as democrats. when douglas comes to