popular sovereignty

基本解释

Both then crafted delicate new systems based on principles of popular sovereignty.
它們都在基於主權在民的原則上制定了細致入微的新系統。
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，定義了主權在民的狹義，然後花了幾十年甚至上百年，努力擴大該定義。
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.
法治眡野下的國家公共權力應儅遵循以下幾個原則：人民主權、權力有限、分權制衡、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