popular sovereignty n (Historical Terms) (in the pre-Civil War US) the doctrine that the inhabitants of a territory should be free from federal interference in determining their own domestic policy, esp in deciding whether or not to allow slavery ...
Popular sovereignty was as much gamble as triumph. It was one thing to ascribe sovereignty to an imagined people, as the Constitution's Preamble did, it was quite another to define, in concrete terms, what that sovereignty meant and who constituted this people. For the most part, the tricky...
This move is called to inclusion, the democratization of popular sovereignty. Such democratization can be seen in two related developments in contemporary constitution-making. The first is expanded citizen consultation in the constitution-making process and the second is the growing conviction on the ...
a.The act or process of electing someone to fill an office or position:Officers are chosen by election and not by appointment. b.An instance of this:Did you vote in this election? c.The fact of being elected:her election to the Senate. ...
United States - Popular Sovereignty, Democracy, Federalism: The Compromise of 1850 was an uneasy patchwork of concessions to all sides that began to fall apart as soon as it was enacted. In the long run the principle of popular sovereignty proved to be m
the foundation of Islamic democratic theory is the same as the foundation of Islamic theocratic theory. That foundation is the relationship between divine address and the divine delegation. The political theology of popular sovereignty in Islam is that theummahas been entrusted by God with the realiz...
At this time the sovereignty was vested in the person of Raymond, the uncle of Eleanor of Aquitaine. This Prince, presuming upon his relationship to the French Queen, endeavoured to withdraw Louis from the grand object of the Crusade — the defence of the kingdom of Jerusalem, and secure ...
Partisans of Allah: Jihad in South Asia, The Sole Spokesman, Self and Sovereignty Ayesha Jalal (Punjabi, Urdu: عائشہ جلال) is a Pakistani-American historian who serves as the Mary Richardson Professor of History at Tufts University, and was the recipient of th...
In this instance, Japan acted in a vacuum of hard power; Japan’s pacifist constitution nullifies any potential military action and Japan was (and still is) in the throes of recession, reducing economic clout. Thus, it is arguable that Japan’s failure can be solely ascribed to the ...
Furthermore, due to the central government's absolute sovereignty over all attractive revenue sources in the form of income tax, local government bodies confront difficulties in obtaining considerable sums of money within their jurisdictions to assist in local development [46]. 3. Theoretical framework...