popular sovereignty

基本解释

Both then crafted delicate new systems based on principles of popular sovereignty.
它们都在基于主权在民的原则上制定了细致入微的新系统。
Both had, in the beginning, a narrow definition of popular sovereignty and then spent decades, even centuries, struggling to expand that definition.
它们都曾，在初始时，定义了主权在民的狭义，然后花了几十年甚至上百年，努力扩大该定义。
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.
法治视野下的国家公共权力应当遵循以下几个原则：人民主权、权力有限、分权制衡、公正公开。

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