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The 47 pages that link to Popular sovereignty, each with the reason it gives.

• SovereigntyBroader topic: It shifts sovereignty’s source from monarchs to the political community.

• Self-determinationRelated: It concerns the source of political authority, while self-determination concerns a people's collective political status.

• Social contractRelated: Rousseau’s contract makes the people, acting collectively, the source of legitimate law.

• RepublicanismRelated: It makes the people, rather than a hereditary ruler, the source of legitimate government.

• DemocracyRelated: It states the source of authority that distinguishes democracy from rule by hereditary or self-appointed rulers.

• Jean-Jacques RousseauRelated: Rousseau makes the people, rather than a ruler, the source of legitimate authority.

• PopulismRelated: Populism appeals to popular sovereignty to justify direct claims to political authority.

• Divine right of kingsCompared with: It reverses the doctrine's claim that sovereignty descends from God to the monarch.

• Meiji ConstitutionCompared with: The Meiji Constitution located sovereignty in the emperor instead of the people.

• Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the CitizenRelated: Article 3 locates sovereignty in the nation, displacing the monarch as its source.

• AbsolutismCompared with: It reverses the absolutist claim that supreme authority rests in the monarch.

• United States Declaration of IndependenceRelated: It supports the claim that the colonies could withdraw allegiance and establish independent governments.

• Constitution of JapanRelated: It replaced the emperor’s sovereignty with the people as the source of governmental authority.

• RepublicRelated: Many republics justify political authority through the people, though participation varies.

• Constitutional amendmentRelated: Referendums and elected ratifying bodies connect amendment authority to popular consent.

• LegitimismCompared with: It locates the source of rule in the people, not hereditary title.

• Consent of the governedRelated: It identifies the people as the source whose consent can legitimate government.

• Democratic LegitimacyRelated: It supplies the democratic basis for citizens' authorization of government.

• Levée en masseRelated: The decree expressed the idea that citizens owed defense to a nation whose sovereignty rested with them.

• French republicanismNarrower topic: It replaces dynastic or divine authority with the people as the source of legitimate rule.

• Jean-Paul MaratRelated: Marat invoked the people’s authority to challenge elected officials he accused of betraying the Revolution.

• GirondinsRelated: Competing claims to represent the people underpinned factional disputes over Paris and the provinces.

• Bastille DayRelated: The uprising commemorated on 14 July became an emblem of popular political power.

• Virginia Declaration of RightsRelated: Its account of government makes the people the source of political power.

• Bayonne AbdicationsRelated: The crisis raised the question of whether sovereignty belonged to the monarch or could be exercised by the nation.

• Civic RepublicanismRelated: It grounds public authority in citizens rather than a ruler’s personal will.

• Imperial Rescript on EducationCompared with: The Rescript grounded civic duties in imperial authority, not popular sovereignty.

• Parliamentary confidenceRelated: Elections confer a broader mandate but do not themselves settle every later confidence question.

• Constitutional democracyRelated: It grounds democratic government even when constitutions restrict particular majority decisions.

• Gettysburg AddressRelated: The address’s “government of the people” makes popular sovereignty its measure of national survival.

• Limited governmentRelated: Popular sovereignty concerns the source of authority, while limited government concerns its boundaries.

• MonarchismCompared with: It offers a competing source of legitimacy to inherited royal authority.

• Declaration of ArbroathRelated: The letter’s claim that the community could reject an unfit king is often read through this principle.

• JacobinsRelated: Jacobins invoked popular sovereignty to justify the Republic and revolutionary action against its enemies.

• LeviathanCompared with: Hobbes begins with popular authorization but places ongoing power in an undivided sovereign.

• Jules MicheletRelated: His account of the Revolution gives the French people agency in making history.

• Islam and democracyCompared with: It contrasts with arguments that ultimate sovereignty belongs to God and limits human lawmaking.

• Jeffersonian democracyRelated: Jeffersonian republicanism grounded government in the consent and participation of citizens.

• RoyalismCompared with: It locates sovereignty in the people rather than a royal person or dynasty.

• Democracy in AmericaRelated: It explains how majority rule gains legitimacy in Tocqueville’s account.

• Political freedomNarrower topic: It explains why participation and consent ground claims to political freedom.

• Third International TheoryRelated: The theory claims that people should exercise authority directly rather than delegate it.

• Albert SoboulRelated: Popular action and claims to political authority figure prominently in his interpretation.

• SovereigntismRelated: Sovereigntist arguments often present national self-rule as an expression of popular authority.

• Stanislas-Marie MaillardRelated: The march dramatized popular intervention in a monarchy that claimed authority by hereditary right.

• Classical radicalismRelated: It grounded demands to make government answerable to a wider electorate.

• National liberalismRelated: It links national self-government to the legitimacy of constitutional institutions.