Popular Sovereignty
Democracy.
Jacksonian democracy
Popular sovereignty is the idea that the government is of the people. It means citizens are in power. Limited government stems from this idea that government is there to protect the people and popular sovereignty.
The idea is referred to as "states' rights".
The consent of the governed is an idea born of the enlightenment and the writings of John Locke. This is the idea that a government gains its power via the willingness of the people to support it. The US system expresses this notion by holding elections in which the people (the governed) select their representatives to govern (there by giving consent).
Democracy.
The idea that the government gets its power from the consent of the people is called "popular sovereignty". On dictionary.com, it is described as "the concept that political and legislative power resides with the citizens"
Popular sovereignty is a doctrine that power come from the people and those who rule them must rule in conformity with them. Sovereignty means supreme or ultimate political authority. A sovereign government is one that is legally/politically independent of any other government.
The government's power comes from the people is an Enlightenment idea reflected in the Preamble.
A system of government in which the legislative branch has ultimate power.
good governments get their power from their people!
Power for, by, and to the people.
a scientific test
the will of the people
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the will of the people
The concept of democratic government - our word comes from the Greek words demos = the people and kratos = power : power to the people