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...

Sovereignty can generally be defined as supreme authority.[additional citation(s) needed] Sovereignty entails hierarchy within the state, as well as external...

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...

Party, Francesco Toscano's Sovereign and Popular Italy Again, Gilberto Trombetta's Front for Popular Sovereignty (a split from Reconquer Italy, which had...

re-evaluation which attributes an ideological tendency – e.g. populares believing in popular sovereignty – to the labels. With the publication of the Römische...

principle of popular sovereignty with the party's acceptance of polygamy in Utah and turned this accusation into a formidable political weapon. Popular sovereignty...

Popular monarchy is a term used by Kingsley Martin (1936) for monarchical titles referring to a people rather than a territory. This was the norm in classical...

slavery into the territories, Douglas became the foremost advocate of popular sovereignty, which held that each territory should be allowed to determine whether...

law as well as constitutional law, particularly used for claims of popular sovereignty. Chapter One, Article One of the Charter of the United Nations states...

Breckinridge of Kentucky. Douglas devised the doctrine of territorial or "popular" sovereignty, which declared that the settlers in a territory had the same rights...

While exploiting popular anti-Austrianism, it reflected a genuine belief in exporting the values of political liberty and popular sovereignty. Simultaneously...

popularization of theories of government based on the notion of popular sovereignty. It did however provide a foundation for the newer political theories...

line was again proposed by the Nashville Convention of June 1850. Popular sovereignty, developed by Lewis Cass and Douglas as the eventual Democratic Party...

defend his record—especially his leading role in the doctrine of popular sovereignty and its incarnation in the Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854. The candidates...

espoused by the Ostend Manifesto. Northern Democrats called for "popular sovereignty", which in theory would allow the residents in a territory to decide...

had little interest in giving these groups power and broad-based popular sovereignty. Simón Bolívar, both the main instigator of the revolts and one of...

Parliamentary sovereignty, principle of constitutional law that the legislative body has authority over other government institutions Popular sovereignty, principle...

considered a popular democrat for his support of a democracy based on popular sovereignty. Theodore Roosevelt is considered a defender of a popular democrat...

ranges from the rule of a representative minority or aristocracy to popular sovereignty. It has had different definitions and interpretations which vary...

particularly with the French Revolution and the spread of the principle of popular sovereignty or self determination, the idea that "the people" should rule is...

with the status of slavery instead decided based on "popular sovereignty". Under popular sovereignty, the citizens of each territory, rather than Congress...

Senator Stephen A. Douglas. Douglas's support for the concept of popular sovereignty, which called for each territory's settlers to decide locally on...

into New Mexico Territory and Utah Territory. Under the concept of popular sovereignty, the people of each territory would decide whether or not slavery...

American political thought. Brewer, Holly (October 2017). "Slavery, Sovereignty, and "Inheritable Blood": Reconsidering John Locke and the Origins of...

abolition of monarchy, civics, civil society, common good, civic virtue, popular sovereignty, patriotism and mixed government. In the classical period itself...

popular sovereignty, which essentially means that the people are the ultimate source of public power or government authority. The concept of popular sovereignty...

each new state of the Union would decide its posture on slavery (popular sovereignty). The newly formed Republican Party stood against the expansion of...

of legislative, executive and judiciary branches and is based on popular sovereignty. The Government runs under the framework established by the Constitution...

unanimous acceptance of popular sovereignty at the level of abstract principle") Edmund S. Morgan, "The Problem of Popular Sovereignty," in Aspects of American...

Athenian democracy, or as one held in conjunction with the concept of popular sovereignty. However, these arguments have been challenged and the present consensus...