人民主權
人民主權係一個政治學嘅概念，代表一個國嘅政府，應該係由佢嘅人民所同意底下而運作。因爲呢個只係一個概念，所以冇受一個特定嘅政制所規限[a]。 Benjamin Franklin 都曾經對呢個概念表示支持，話過：“喺一個自由嘅政府入面，領袖都係僕人，而人民先係主人”[1]。
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編輯註
編輯- ↑ Leonard Levy 話人民主權嘅概念並唔決定一份憲法嘅實行，只係解釋呢份憲法嘅權力來源 (Tarcov 1986, v. 3, p. 1426).
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編輯- ↑ Benjamin Franklin (2003). The Political Thought of Benjamin Franklin. Edited by Ralph Ketchum; Hackett Publishing. p. 398. ISBN 0872206831.
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編輯- Childers, Christopher (2012), The Failure of Popular Sovereignty: Slavery, Manifest Destiny, and the Radicalization of Southern Politics, University of Kansas Press, p. 334
- Etcheson, Nicole (Spring–Summer 2004), "The Great Principle of Self-Government: Popular Sovereignty and Bleeding Kansas", Kansas History, 27: 14–29 links it to Jacksonian Democracy
- Johannsen, Robert W. (1973), Stephen A. Douglas, Oxford University Press, pp. 576–613.
- Adams, Willi Paul (1980), The First American Constitutions: Republican Ideology and the Making of the State Constitutions in the Revolutionary Era, University of North Carolina Press, ISBN 978-0-7425-2069-1