The Importance Of Popular Sovereignty

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The concept that is most important to me is popular sovereignty. Popular Sovereignty is the rule that the government is run by the people. The government is the leading body in a country that is responsible for ruling, and enforcing/creating laws. Also, the people are all the human beings that make up a certain state or country's population. Therefore, popular sovereignty is the principle that the power of the government is made and held together from the approval of its people. These elected representatives are the “source of political power.” Popular sovereignty simply means that the people in the government are chosen by the people of that country. The United States elects the government from the voice of the people. If these rules of listening to the people did not apply, everything would be decided by dictatorship. Dictatorship is the other way of making decisions. …show more content…

One example of this concept was when the people who were able to vote, elected Barack Obama into office. We, the people, elected Barack Obama into office because we wanted change and we also wanted improve our lives. We felt that he offered the best plan that fit our preferences. Soon after he was elected into office, he provided better health care. This is a good example of popular sovereignty because the president that the people elected, ended up providing better health care, just like we asked that he improve our lives. Another reference to the good side of popular sovereignty would be that the people are now supporting the candidate Donald Trump because he makes the people feel safer. One way he makes the people feel safer would be his plan to create a wall to seperate the United States from Mexico. The people would feel safer because if there was a separating wall between the United States and Mexico, immigrants wouldn’t be able to secretly pass

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