USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Popular sovereignty can be defined as the doctrine that all people have a right to participate in government. This would mean that the power of government comes from “the consent of the governed.” Popular sovereignty was used in the French Revolution.

Detailed explanation-2: -popular sovereignty, also called squatter sovereignty, in U.S. history, a controversial political doctrine according to which the people of federal territories should decide for themselves whether their territories would enter the Union as free or slave states.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Popular sovereignty is the principle that the authority of a state and its government are created and sustained by the consent of its people, who are the source of all political power.

Detailed explanation-5: -The concept of Popular Sovereignty states that the people should choose their representatives who then will form the government, i.e. there should be “Rule by the People”.