| The only clue he gave lay in the distinction he made between popular sovereignty and political power. |
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| Politicians from North and South redesigned popular sovereignty to lessen sectional tensions. |
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| To rethink the concept of popular sovereignty beyond the nation-state appears to entail a contradiction in terms. |
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| Sovereignty, if it is not to be confiscated by factions of the bourgeoisie or technocrats in their service, has to be popular sovereignty. |
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| Lincoln's approach to popular sovereignty contrasts with that of another prominent Republican, William H. Seward. |
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| With the coming of popular sovereignty the idea of equality assumed a larger, if unintended and at first latent, significance. |
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| An inquiry into the history of the idea of popular sovereignty as it has been shaped by the struggles between rulers and ruled. |
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| Politicians proposed popular sovereignty as a means of entrusting the issue to citizens of new territories. |
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| For international politics, popular sovereignty implied both national sovereignty and self-determination. |
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| As a political system, democracy starts with the assumption of popular sovereignty, vesting ultimate power in the people. |
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| Childers now uses popular sovereignty as a lens for viewing the radicalization of southern states' rights politics. |
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| Thomas Jefferson endured a vicious, partisan press, and Lincoln saw his Whig party splinter into anti-slavery Republicans and popular sovereignty Democrats. |
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| The Iranian nation is determined to bring down the unelected and loathed rulers and herald freedom and popular sovereignty. |
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| Combining social welfare with liberty and popular sovereignty made democracy attractive. |
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| Lincoln, who by this time had been brought back into politics by Kansas-Nebraska, became one of the trenchant critics of Douglas's theory of popular sovereignty. |
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| Liberty belongs to individuals, while popular sovereignty is a property of the community as a whole. |
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| Until the second half of the 19th century, it was widely believed that popular sovereignty would crush liberty. |
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| The Cordeliers militants rejected the Assembly's concept of representation as the exclusive expression of popular sovereignty. |
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| The essence of popular sovereignty, on the other hand, is that the democratic will of the people should prevail over the vested interests of a powerful minority. |
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| Referendums are not and cannot be the only means of exercising popular sovereignty. |
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| Built on a concept of popular sovereignty as well as national sovereignty, the modern state emerged from two different political forms. |
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| Where such traditions are absent or weak, popular sovereignty easily turns into populist dictatorship, liberal democracy to libertinism and demagoguery. |
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| This in itself is an important gain for the region given that it could support the assertion of popular sovereignty and Government accountability to the citizens. |
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| By late July, the spirit of popular sovereignty had spread throughout France. |
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| More fundamentally, it derives from the overarching right of indigenous peoples to self-determination and from related principles of democracy and popular sovereignty. |
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| But the country lawyer scored real blows, holding Douglas to the contradiction between popular sovereignty and the Dred Scott decision, which forbade antislavery settlers from prohibiting slavery in their territories. |
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| In these two Articles, the AU upholds the basic democratic principle that elections are a legitimate method of transfer of power and the only democratic manner of expressing popular sovereignty in a representative democracy. |
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| The document is widely seen as an early example of both Scottish nationalism and popular sovereignty. |
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| This document combined specific grievances with wider demands for constitutional change on the basis of popular sovereignty. |
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| This requires first of all a genuine return to popular sovereignty. |
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| It was noted that natural resources are public goods, and consistent with constitutional ideas of popular sovereignty, these resources should be managed with the participation of all citizens and people. |
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| The principle of popular sovereignty is at its heart, including collective decision-making, peaceful political competition and the full right to challenge incumbent leaders. |
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| Providing that latitude is hard to do in public systems, which, in the name of popular sovereignty and a coherent chain of command, they place a premium on topdown control of public officials. |
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| The contrast between participatory and federal structures is commonly made in Canada, and Canadian decision-making has been dominated far more by elite bargaining than by popular sovereignty. |
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| Related principles of popular sovereignty and democracy join in opposition to government by imposition and uphold the imperative of government by consent. |
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| The Swedish Constitution is based on the principles of popular sovereignty, representative democracy, parliamentarism, local governance and the rule of law. |
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| Rousseau believed that liberty was possible only where there was direct rule by the people as a whole in lawmaking, where popular sovereignty was indivisible and inalienable. |
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| The Levellers were a political movement during the English Civil War that emphasised popular sovereignty, extended suffrage, equality before the law and religious tolerance. |
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| This reflects the view of popular sovereignty rather than parliamentary sovereignty, with the constitution's legitimacy ultimately springing from the 1922 Irish election. |
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