Popular sovereignty is the principle that the authority of a government is created and sustained by the consent of its people, typically expressed through elected representatives. A prominent historical precedent for popular sovereignty is the American Revolution and the subsequent U.S. Constitution.
The Declaration of Independence (1776) articulated the idea that governments derive their power from the consent of the governed, and the Constitution (1787) established a framework for a government that was accountable to the people through democratic processes, such as elections. This established a foundational precedent for the concept of popular sovereignty in modern democratic governance.
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