Popular sovereignty

High-modernist ideology thus tends to devalue or banish politics. Political interests can only frustrate the social solutions devised by specialists with scientific tools adequate to their analysis. As individuals, high modernists might well hold democratic views about popular sovereignty or classical liberal views about the inviolability of a private sphere that restrained them, but such convictions are external to, and often at war with, their high-modernist convictions. 

Ostwald, M. (1986), From Popular Sovereignty to the Rule of Law, Berkeley University of California Press. 

Pompadour, Madame de, 20 popular sovereignty, 39, 259-60, 270-1 as protection a inst artificial aristo< (, 187-8... 

This highlights a pervasive ambivalence among Federalists. On the one hand they favored popular sovereignty and majority rule on the other they feared majority tyranny. The new constitution represented their ingenious and innovative attempt to secure the former while precluding... 

Should a popular insurrection happen, in one of the confederate States, the others are able to quell it. Should abuses creep into one part, they are reformed by those that remain sound. The State maybe destroyed on one side, and not on the other the confederacy may be dissolved, and the confederates preserve their sovereignty. 

---