Popular sovereignty Quote by Lance T. Stewart

“The revolutionary Terror, which is attacked for its revolutionary tribunal, its law of suspects and its guillotine, was a process welded to a regime…

— Sophie Wahnich

“For Croly, the entire process of popular sovereignty exercised through representative republicanism, which led to the drafting, adoption, and ratification of the United States…

— Mark R. Levin

“but if the bank is stronger than the sword or the sceptre of popular sovereignty, the end will be the end of democracy.”

— Anonymous

“Our contemporaries are constantly wracked by two warring passions: they feel the need to be led and the desire to remain free. Unable to…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“Bleeding Kansas and the Caning of Charles Sumner   The reaction to the Kansas-Nebraska Act was intense, and in many ways violent. In the…

— Lance T. Stewart

I do not want to abandon representative democracy. I want to see it balanced by popular sovereignty, especially the variety known as deliberative democracy.

— George Monbiot

“Because widespread participation is so central to popular sovereignty, we can say that the less political participation there is in a society, the weaker…

— Edward S. Greenberg

The Senate was an odd compromise between the founders and the early leaders of the republic who wanted a single house which was based…

— George Packer

We should remember that the Declaration of Independence is not merely a historical document. It is an explicit recognition that our rights derive not…

— Anonymous

Where is democratic process or popular sovereignty for the endangered population? It cannot be "given" or "allocated" by some other power without that same…

— Judith Butler

Now what is Judge Douglas Popular Sovereignty? It is, as a principle, no other than that, if one man chooses to make a slave…

— Abraham Lincoln

There is a tension between parliamentary and popular sovereignty. A lively, meaningful democracy would achieve a balance between the two.

— George Monbiot