Maybe you heard the term "popular sovereignty" in history class. But what does it mean? Here's everything you need to know about popular sovereignty, including examples. Start the day smarter.

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the holders of popular sovereignty, who have chosen, entrusted and tolerated politics of the kind that prevail today. The government’s duty to protect the lives and livelihoods of the people is ...

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As a result, democracy (popular sovereignty-majority rule) makes possible the creation of a society that fully embraces mutual respect for individual rights while allowing and encouraging just and ...

This, no doubt, is the background to the request made by my hosts, to discuss the meaning of national sovereignty through the example of the German unification process, and to explain the problems ...

Understand the complexity of sovereignty in Japan during this period ... However, by the early Taishō period, popular interest in a voice in government was growing. Historians present Japan’s Taishō ...

It is thus a counterpoise to popular or social morality that can sometimes be undemocratic ... The writer submits that peremptory norms that limit the internal dimension of sovereignty are found in ...