Examples of popular sovereignty in the following topics:
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- Popular consent, majority rule, and popular sovereignty are related concepts that form the basis of democratic government.
- Popular consent (or the consent of the governed), majority rule, and popular sovereignty are related concepts that form the basis of democratic government.
- Popular sovereignty is thus a basic tenet of most democracies.
- Thenceforth, American revolutionaries generally agreed and were committed to the principle that governments were legitimate only if they rested on popular sovereignty–that is, the sovereignty of the people.
- Explain the significance of popular sovereignty and the consent of the governed for liberal democracy
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- Other states are subject to external sovereignty or hegemony where ultimate sovereignty lies in another state.
- For example, when India was a colony of the British Empire, India did not have sovereignty of its internal affairs.
- Similarly, the American Revolution brought an end to British sovereignty over its American colonies in the New World.
- Other states are subject to external sovereignty or hegemony where ultimate sovereignty lies in another state.
- For example, when India was a colony of the British Empire, India did not have sovereignty of its internal affairs.
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- In Western civilization, the Magna Carta stands as the early exemplar of a document limiting the reach of the king's sovereignty.
- "Limited government" stands in contrast to the doctrine of the Divine Right of Kings, which states that the king, and by extension his entire government, held unlimited sovereignty over its subjects.
- In Western civilization, the Magna Carta stands as the early exemplar of a document limiting the reach of the king's sovereignty.
- The English Bill of Rights, associated with the Glorious Revolution of 1688, established limits of royal sovereignty.
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- Federalism is the system where sovereignty is constitutionally divided between a central governing authority and constituent units.
- Federalism is the system of government in which sovereignty is constitutionally divided between a central governing authority and constituent political units.
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- The conflict dates back to early Arab opposition to Jewish national sovereignty and numerous wars fought between Israel and neighboring Arab states.
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- As Alexander Hamilton explained in The Federalist #32, "the State governments would clearly retain all the rights of sovereignty which they before had, and which were not, by that act, exclusively delegated to the United States. " Hamilton goes on to explain that this alienation would exist in three cases only: where there is in express terms an exclusive delegation of authority to the federal government, as in the case of the seat of government; where authority is granted in one place to the federal government and prohibited to the states in another, as in the case of imposts; and where a power is granted to the federal government "to which a similar authority in the States would be absolutely and totally contradictory and repugnant, as in the case of prescribing naturalization rules. "
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- The concept of liberty plays a very important role in social contract theory, particularly in its discussion of sovereignty and natural rights.
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- Beginning in the 19th century, the U.S. government attempted to reduce conflict and pave the way for territorial expansion by confining Native Americans to reservations, granting them a degree of sovereignty in exchange.
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- Jackson said that he would guard against "all encroachments upon the legitimate sphere of State sovereignty".