popular sovereignty
Popular Sovereignty is the idea that the people who live in the United States give the government permission to rule over them, and we control who is in office. According to the Webster Dictionary, popular sovereignty is "a doctrine in political theory that government is created by and subject to the will of the people".
Two examples of popular sovereignty in the constitution are the ninth and tenth amendments to the constitution saying "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people" and "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." Another example is back during the Civil War when states were slave states and free states, the government didn't decide or dictate which states were free or slave, they voted on it and decided for themselves. The power lay within the choice of the people.
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Two examples of popular sovereignty in the constitution are the ninth and tenth amendments to the constitution saying "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people" and "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." Another example is back during the Civil War when states were slave states and free states, the government didn't decide or dictate which states were free or slave, they voted on it and decided for themselves. The power lay within the choice of the people.
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