How to Use popular sovereignty in a Sentence

popular sovereignty

noun

• The time has come for popular sovereignty and national sovereignty to prevail in our country.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 3 Jan. 2026
• Its rulings are not really subject to checks and balances, let alone popular sovereignty.
  — Jay Cost, National Review, 9 Oct. 2017
• He feels burned by his efforts to instantiate popular sovereignty.
  — Shikha Dalmia, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2025
• Each new nation-state meant a new claim of popular sovereignty, empowering the many to expropriate the property of the few.
  — Stephen Wertheim, Foreign Affairs, 16 Apr. 2019
• The best response to the appeal of this kind of populism, Pistor suggests, would be a real demonstration of popular sovereignty.
  — Adam Tooze, The New York Review of Books, 28 Jan. 2020
• But Douglas drove through popular sovereignty, which said the voters should decide — after all, his argument went, what’s a democracy for?
  — Randy Blaser, chicagotribune.com, 23 May 2018
• Not all of these obstacles to popular sovereignty are rooted exclusively in economics.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 23 May 2018
• Within the context of popular sovereignty, dividing a country’s citizens this way implies that some of them are enemies of the people.
  — William A. Galston, WSJ, 16 Mar. 2018
• The early history of the parties, then, was partially about securing popular sovereignty.
  — Jay Cost, National Review, 17 June 2019
• Their reaction is a truculent reassertion of popular sovereignty.
  — Adam Tooze, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2019
• Napoleon’s victory dealt a body blow to a European old regime already tottering from the spread of republicanism and popular sovereignty.
  — Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, WSJ, 9 Apr. 2021
• Under popular sovereignty, the government's authority comes from the people.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 17 Apr. 2023
• Otherwise, popular sovereignty collapses under the weight of its own contradictions.
  — Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 18 Sep. 2020
• The Constitution is just a way of organizing popular sovereignty; the underlying truth is that the people ultimately are in charge.
  — Jay Cost, National Review, 11 Sep. 2017
• The upper chamber of Congress was a constitutional compromise between popular sovereignty and state sovereignty.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
• There is also the democratic tradition, which at its core holds that matters of great public importance ought to be decided by the people—and that popular sovereignty should control the excesses of both public and private power.
  — Ganesh Sitaraman, Wired, 18 Sep. 2020
• Over four days, people from vastly different backgrounds took to the streets to defend the welfare of humanity against the encroachment of corporate power and the loss of popular sovereignty to faceless bureaucrats.
  — Vikram Murthi, IndieWire, 5 Dec. 2025
• This is a huge tension in the early republic, because the revolution had been about liberty, popular sovereignty, representative government.
  — Sophia Nguyen, Washington Post, 16 June 2023
• Critics such as Jonathan Rauch insist that a surfeit of popular sovereignty has tipped the delicate balance of self-governance in the direction of strongman ethnic nationalism.
  — Jordan Michael Smith, The New Republic, 12 Aug. 2021
• Daily Wire editor in chief Ben Shapiro argued that Walmart had bowed to social justice warriors and trampled on popular sovereignty (even though gun control is quite popular).
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 5 Sep. 2019
• Few better expressions exist of America’s founding principles of popular sovereignty, natural rights, and the separation of Church and state.
  — David W. Blight, The Atlantic, 9 Nov. 2019
• Granted, back then a jury made up of commoners was seen as the embodiment of democracy and popular sovereignty both in Revolutionary France and America.
  — Henning Schroeder, Star Tribune, 8 Mar. 2021
• And yet, the idea that increasing economic inequality and sustaining popular sovereignty are incompatible endeavors wasn’t always alien to our politics.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 2 Nov. 2017
• But none are as significant an obstacle to popular sovereignty as the passive suppression inherent to America’s approach to voter registration.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 6 Apr. 2018
• Populism accepts the principles of popular sovereignty and majoritarian democracy.
  — William A. Galston, WSJ, 16 Mar. 2018
• Among them is Abdallah al-Maliki, author of a 2012 book on the religious legitimacy of popular sovereignty.
  — Stéphane Lacroix, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2017
• Without real competition, elections risk going from true exercises in popular sovereignty to a mere administrative formality.
  — Charlie Hunt, The Conversation, 6 Feb. 2026
• Without real competition, elections risk going from true exercises in popular sovereignty to a mere administrative formality.
  — Charlie Hunt, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2026
• The patriots’ dreams of liberty ricocheted around much of the rest of the planet, too, pushing questions about human dignity, popular sovereignty, and citizenship toward the top of the global agenda and equipping rights seekers everywhere with a potent new vocabulary.
  — Literary Hub, 7 Nov. 2025
• In England, and later in the United States, nationalism expressed itself in the development of equality, popular sovereignty and individual freedom.
  — Jonathan Allen, NBC News, 5 June 2019