Popular sovereignty
Popular sovereignty is the principle that the leaders of a state and its government are created and sustained by the consent of its people, who are the source of all political legitimacy. Popular sovereignty, being a principle, does not imply any particular political implementation.[a] Benjamin Franklin expressed the concept when he wrote that "In free governments, the rulers are the servants and the people their superiors and sovereigns".[1]
"Sovereign people" redirects here. For the Curaçaoan political party, see Sovereign People.Claim of Right 1989
Consent of the governed
Self-determination
Self-governance
Declaration of Arbroath
Legitimacy (political)
Man-made law
Parliamentary sovereignty
Philosophical anarchism
Retroversion of the sovereignty to the people
Sovereign Citizen Movement
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Lutz, Donald S. (1988), The Origins of American Constitutionalism, Louisiana State University Press, 978-0-8071-1506-0
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Morgan, Edmund S. (1977), "The Problem of Popular Sovereignty", Aspects of American Liberty: Philosophical, Historical and Political (The American Philosophical Society)
Morgan, Edmund S. (1988), Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America, W.W. Norton and Company, 0-393-30623-2
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Peters, Jr., Ronald M. (1978) The Massachusetts Constitution of 1780: A Social Compact, University of Massachusetts Press, 978-0-8071-1506-0
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Silbey, Joel H., ed. (1994), "Constitutional Conventions", Encyclopedia of the American Legislative System (3 volumes ed.) (Charles Scribner's Sons) I, 978-0-684-19243-7
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Tarcov, Nathan (1986), "Popular Sovereignty (in Democratic Political Theory)", in Levy, Leonard, Encyclopedia of the American Constitution 3, 978-0-02-864880-4
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Childers, Christopher (2012), The Failure of Popular Sovereignty: Slavery, Manifest Destiny, and the Radicalization of Southern Politics, University of Kansas Press, p. 334
Etcheson, Nicole (Spring–Summer 2004), "The Great Principle of Self-Government: Popular Sovereignty and Bleeding Kansas", Kansas History, 27: 14–29 links it to
Jacksonian Democracy
Johannsen, Robert W. (1973), Stephen A. Douglas, Oxford University Press, pp. 576–613.