Lincoln stated Douglas's popular sovereignty theory was a threat to the nation's morality and that Douglas represented a conspiracy to extend slavery to free states.

Despite popular opinion, Limbo, which was elaborated upon by theologians beginning in the Middle Ages, never entered into the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church, yet, at times, the church incorporated the theory in its ordinary belief.

In 1904, he also wrote a novel, Born Again, clearly inspired by the popular Utopian fantasy Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy, an early harbinger of the metaphysical turn his career would take with the theory of Lawsonomy.

Using the once popular vortex theory of gravity, the possibility of matter with negative gravity was discussed by William Hicks in the 1880s.

Proto-Isaiah is divided between verse and prose passages: a currently popular theory is that the verse passages represent the prophecies of the original Isaiah, while the prose sections are " sermons " on his texts composed at the court of Josiah, at the end of the 7th century BCE.

Clare Birchall at the University of Kent describes conspiracy theory as a form of popular knowledge.

In a context where a conspiracy theory has become popular within a social group, communal reinforcement may equally play a part.

In popular usage, this term is often used to refer to unfounded or weakly based speculation, leading to the idea that " It's not a conspiracy theory if it's actually true ".

Most quantitative calculations in modern quantum chemistry use either valence bond or molecular orbital theory as a starting point, although a third approach, Density Functional Theory, has become increasingly popular in recent years.

However it was only in 1927 that the shakta theory of seven main chakras, that has become most popular in the West, was introduced, largely through the translation of two Indian texts: the Sat-Cakra-Nirupana, and the Padaka-Pancaka, by Sir John Woodroffe, alias Arthur Avalon, in a book titled The Serpent Power.

This theory became popular during the Zhou dynasty.

Convergence theory is a broad term which includes a viewpoint popular among non-Marxist Chinese intellectuals of the mid 20th century.

With the expansion of the mass media and mass / popular culture in the 1960s and 1970s and the blending of social and cultural criticism and literary criticism, the methods of both kinds of critical theory sometimes intertwined in the analysis of phenomena of popular culture, as in the emerging field of cultural studies, in which concepts deriving from Marxian theory, post-structuralism, semiology, psychoanalysis and feminist theory would be found in the same interpretive work.

This theory, which was repeated by later antiquaries, is bolstered, or may have derived from, Cadbury's proximity to the River Cam and towns Queen Camel and West Camel, and remained popular enough to help inspire a large-scale archaeological dig in the 20th century.

A popular though as yet unsubstantiated theory holds that a small party of Cathar Perfects escaped from the fortress before the massacre at prat dels cremats.

Haug's concept was subsequently disseminated as a Parsi interpretation, thus corroborating Haug's theory and the idea became so popular that it is now almost universally accepted as doctrine.

The decoherence approaches to interpreting quantum theory have been further explored and developed, becoming quite popular.

Instead, a popular theory suggests linguistic updating, which is when " late forms may not in fact have been original to the book but may reflect the updating of vocabulary and grammar by later scribes so their contemporaries could understand the book better.

It supplanted an earlier popular theory involving Francis Bacon.

The dissection and tracking of common formulaic tropes-as well as their subversions and new permutations-has become reasonably popular in not only academic circles ( the Final Girl theory being one such example, as well as to some extent Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces ), but also amongst more casual amateur circles, with websites such as TV Tropes Wiki.

Among Rotten Tomatoes ' Cream of the Crop, which consists of popular and notable critics from the top newspapers, websites, television, and radio programs, the film holds an overall approval rating of 71 % based on 24 reviews.

Breakfast is still very popular and may be elaborated and extended on weekends, with friends invited as guests, the same holds for coffee and cake.

Conventional wisdom holds that Hamlet is too obviously connected to legend, and the name Hamnet was quite popular at the time.

* 1975 – India annexes Sikkim after the mountain state holds a referendum in which the popular vote is in favor of merging with India.

Another popular theory holds that the Thera eruption is the source of the legend of Atlantis.

Scoring styles vary, but one popular method is to assign a value of 2 points to each game, with the server taking both points if he or she holds serve and the doubles team each taking one if they break serve.

One popular narrative holds that all of the Gaoshan tribes were originally Plains tribes, which fled to the mountains under pressure from Han encroachment.

Though musicological study of popular music has vastly increased in quantity recently, Middleton's assertion in 1990 — that most major " works of musicology, theoretical or historical, act as though popular music did not exist "— holds true.

In the Harry Potter universe, Quidditch holds a fervent following similar to the position that association football holds as a globally popular sport.

In the popular comic by DC Comics, as well as three Batman movies ( 1966, 1989 and The Dark Knight ) and the TV series, The Joker is the supervillain nemesis of Batman and is often portrayed as having a rather " Dark and Twisted " jester-like sense of humor whose theme of practical jokes almost always holds death as the punchline during his " performances ".

It has been in existence for over 50 years and holds a popular summer theater workshop for area youth.

Its library holds some 60, 000 books and is a popular place for graduates and undergraduates alike to work, especially given that it is open until 2. 00 a. m. most nights compared to the earlier closing time of the Bodleian and faculty libraries.

In September 10 – 19 the Outdoor Amphitheater holds Riders of the Flood, a popular historical drama play based on the book by Pocahontas County author W. E. Blackhurst for the Riders of the Flood Outdoor Drama.

Each year, Road America holds over 425 events, one of most popular being the Kohler International Challenge in July.

The railway holds annual galas including the popular Diesel Gala and the Harvest of Steam.

Historically, the ace had the lowest value and this still holds in many popular European games ( in fact most European decks, including the French Tarot Nouveau, do not use the " A " index, instead keeping the numeral " 1 ").

As Sweden is a representative democracy in a parliamentary system based on popular sovereignty, as defined in the Instrument of Government of 1974, the Monarch has a purely ceremonial role, though officially he or she is designated as head of state and holds the highest state office in the country, and by courtesy the highest military and social ranks.

She holds the record for the most popular votes in any U. S. Senate election in history, having received 6. 96 million votes in her 2004 re-election.

It also holds a popular ' Last Night of the Proms ' concert performed annually by the Littlehampton Concert Band.

Aylesbury Methodist Church holds an annual organ recital, which has become very popular and attracts prominent organists from throughout the UK.

A popular folk tale about the origin of the term holds that the character derives from Jonathan Trumbull ( 1710 – 85 ), Governor of Connecticut.