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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

Adams, Willi Paul (1980), The First American Constitutions: Republican Ideology and the Making of the State Constitutions in the Revolutionary Era, University of North Carolina Press,  978-0-7425-2069-1

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Childers, Christopher (March 2011), "", Civil War History 57 (1): 48–70

Interpreting Popular Sovereignty: A Historiographical Essay

Conkin, Paul K. (1974), Self-Evident Truths: Being a Discourse on the Origins & Development of the First Principles of American Government—Popular Sovereignty, Natural Rights, and Balance & Separation of Powers, Indiana University Press,  978-0-253-20198-0

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Lutz, Donald S. (1980), Popular Consent and Popular Control: Whig Political Theory in the Early State Constitutions, Louisiana State Univ. Press,  978-0-8071-0596-2

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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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Reid, John Phillip (1986–1993), American Revolution III (4 volumes ed.), University of Wisconsin Press,  0-299-13070-3

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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.