popular sovereignty

基本解釋

Both then crafted delicate new systems based on principles of popular sovereignty.
它們都在基于主權(quán)在民的原則上制定了細(xì)致入微的新系統(tǒng)。
Both had, in the beginning, a narrow definition of popular sovereignty and then spent decades, even centuries, struggling to expand that definition.
它們都曾，在初始時(shí)，定義了主權(quán)在民的狹義，然后花了幾十年甚至上百年，努力擴(kuò)大該定義。
The national public power under the government by law should agree with the following several principles: popular sovereignty, limited power and decentralization of power and openness.
法治視野下的國家公共權(quán)力應(yīng)當(dāng)遵循以下幾個(gè)原則：人民主權(quán)、權(quán)力有限、分權(quán)制衡、公正公開。

The upper chamber of Congress was a constitutional compromise between popular sovereignty and state sovereignty.
NEWYORKER: The Empty Chamber
By way of judgments, he chides the first group with resistance to popular sovereignty, the second with complacency towards western injustice.
ECONOMIST: Political ideas
Why, one day even China might get around to popular sovereignty, right?
FORBES: Asia's Week: Snaking Toward Standoffs

(in the pre-Civil War US) the doctrine that the inhabitants of a territory should be free from federal interference in determining their own domestic policy, esp in deciding whether or not to allow slavery