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 is government based on consent of the people. The government’s source of authority is the people, and its power is not legitimate if it disregards the will of the people. Government established by free choice of the people is expected to serve the people, who have sovereignty, or supreme power.

Detailed explanation-3: -Sovereignty is a political concept that refers to dominant power or supreme authority. In a monarchy, supreme power resides in the “sovereign", or king. In modern democracies, sovereign power rests with the people and is exercised through representative bodies such as Congress or Parliament.

Detailed explanation-4: -Hobbes’s theories decisively shape the concept of sovereignty through the medium of social contract theories. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s (1712–1778) definition of popular sovereignty (with early antecedents in Francisco Suárez’s theory of the origin of power), provides that the people are the legitimate sovereign.

Detailed explanation-5: -Popular sovereignty. All political power is vested in and derived from the people. All government of right originates with the people, is founded upon their will only, and is instituted solely for the good of the whole.