to set up the kansas-nebraska territories.

建立的堪萨斯-内布拉斯领地
The second part, was, of course, a declaration

第二个部分是一个公告
that any state produced, created from kansas and nebraska

任何在堪萨斯和内布拉斯加领地上建立的州
Would be created on a principle of popular sovereignty.

都将遵从一个民主权利原则
There would be a popular referendum at some stage

将会有一些人民公投
in the territorial process, to be worked out later.

在领土进程中进行
It passed the U.S. Senate thirty-seven to fourteen.

这个决议在美国参议院以37对14通过
That's in great part

这个决议非常重要
because the kansas-nebraska act became an Absolute test

因为堪萨斯-内布拉斯加法是终极测试
of democratic party loyalty which Stephen Douglas demanded.

是斯蒂芬·道格拉斯对民主党忠诚的测试
He didn't get all democrats to support it but he got most of them.

他获得大多数民主党的支持
And the whig party, by 1864, in what was still a Fledgling two-party system

而1864年的辉格党对两党系统还尚显稚嫩