popular sovereignty
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Popular sovereignty
Popular
sovereignty
is the belief that the
state
is created by and therefore subject to the will of its people, who are the source of all
political power
. It is closely associated to the
social contract
philosophers, among whom are
Thomas Hobbes
,
John Locke
and
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
.
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Popular sovereignty
The political/legal principle that all legitimate political authority within a society derives ultimately from the will or, at least, from the generalized consent of the subject population. [See also:
legitmacy
,
ideology
]
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