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Popular Sovereignty: Power Of Government

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Popular Sovereignty is a concept where the power of government in a democracy is granted by us who elected that government. At the same time, we have the constitution that was made by James Madison in order to limit both the powers of government and powers of the people. Madison made the constitution to deal with factions so no single group/faction will be too powerful than the others. People and government is considered as two different factions and so the constitution had listed out limits so neither the government nor the people will be more powerful than the other. Madison created limits to the people’s power so we will not overpower the government. One of the limits is that the government was designed to be a slow moving system which

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