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- Popular_sovereignty abstract "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, through their elected representatives (Rule by the People), who are the source of all political power. It is closely associated with republicanism and social contract philosophers such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Popular sovereignty expresses a concept and does not necessarily reflect or describe a political reality. It is usually contrasted with the concept of parliamentary sovereignty, and with individual sovereignty. The people have the final say in government decisions.Benjamin Franklin expressed the concept when he wrote, "In free governments, the rulers are the servants and the people their superiors and sovereigns".Americans founded their Revolution and government on popular sovereignty, but the term was also used in the 1850s to describe a highly controversial approach to slavery in the territories as propounded by senator Stephen A. Douglas. It meant that local residents of a territory would be the ones to decide if slavery would be permitted, and it led to bloody warfare in Bleeding Kansas as violent proponents and enemies of slavery flooded Kansas territory in order to decide the elections.Popular sovereignty also can be described as the voice of the people.".
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- Popular_sovereignty subject Category:Constitution_of_the_United_Kingdom.
- Popular_sovereignty subject Category:Jean-Jacques_Rousseau.
- Popular_sovereignty subject Category:Politics_of_Scotland.
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- Popular_sovereignty comment "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, through their elected representatives (Rule by the People), who are the source of all political power. It is closely associated with republicanism and social contract philosophers such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.".
- Popular_sovereignty label "Popular sovereignty".
- Popular_sovereignty label "Principio di sovranità popolare".
- Popular_sovereignty label "Soberania popular".
- Popular_sovereignty label "Soberanía popular".
- Popular_sovereignty label "Souveraineté populaire".
- Popular_sovereignty label "Suwerenność ludu".
- Popular_sovereignty label "Volkssoevereiniteit".
- Popular_sovereignty label "Volkssouveränität".
- Popular_sovereignty label "سيادة الشعب".
- Popular_sovereignty label "人民主权论".
- Popular_sovereignty label "国民主権".
- Popular_sovereignty sameAs Volkssouveränität.
- Popular_sovereignty sameAs Soberanía_popular.
- Popular_sovereignty sameAs Souveraineté_populaire.
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- Popular_sovereignty sameAs Principio_di_sovranità_popolare.
- Popular_sovereignty sameAs 国民主権.
- Popular_sovereignty sameAs 국민주권.
- Popular_sovereignty sameAs Volkssoevereiniteit.
- Popular_sovereignty sameAs Suwerenność_ludu.
- Popular_sovereignty sameAs Soberania_popular.
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