USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The principle of popular sovereignty denotes that the source of governmental power or the sovereignty lies with the people. The concept of the social contract is the base of this principle as it believes that the government should work for the benefit of the people governed.

Detailed explanation-2: -Popular sovereignty means that the people are the ultimate source of the authority of their government. Popular sovereignty means that democratic government is BY THE PEOPLE AND FOR THE PEOPLE-for the benefit of the people, not for the benefit of those who govern in their name.

Detailed explanation-3: -Sovereignty is ultimate power over something, or freedom from outsider control. Popular sovereignty is a means by which a governing state or body is granted its power by the citizens of that state.

Detailed explanation-4: -That is sovereignty of the peoples’ rule, is the principle that the authority of a state and its government is created and sustained by the consent of its people, through their elected representatives (Peoples Representative Act 1951), who is the source of all political power.

Detailed explanation-5: -Popular sovereignty is the idea that the government’s power comes from the will of the people or the “consent of the governed.” If the government started to violate the will of the people, Americans would have the right to change that.