Popular Sovereignty
All of the power lies in the hands of people of the United States who are sovereign. Government can only govern if it is given permission by those who are governed. The overall meaning of popular sovereignty is that the National Government receives its power from the people of the United States and that the people have given their government the power that it has threw the constitution. The government only has the power to make decisions because the people who are governed by them give them the power to do so but if the government abuses the power that they have been given the people have the right to overthrow their government and change it.
Romer V. Evans
- Four years ago, the voters of Colorado enacted by referendum a state constitutional amendment, which provided that no governmental body in the state could grant protected minority status or preferences based on homosexual or bisexual orientation or conduct. On May 20, 1996, the Supreme Court decided Romer v. Evans, invalidating Amendment 2 as unconstitutional under the federal Equal Protection Clause.
Chisholm V. Georgia
- Chisholm v. Georgia was the first great constitutional case decided by the Supreme Court. In Chisholm, the Court addressed the fundamental question: Who is Sovereign? The People or the State? It adopted an individual concept of popular sovereignty rather than the modern view that limits popular sovereignty to collective or democratic self-government.
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