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  2. Democratic backsliding - Wikipedia

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    A rhetorical emphasis on the idea that "legitimate political authority is based on popular sovereignty and majority rule"; Disapproval of, and challenges to the legitimacy of, established holders of "political, cultural, and economic power"; Leadership by "maverick outsiders" who claim "to speak for the vox populi and to serve ordinary people ...

  3. Popular sovereignty - Wikipedia

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    Popular sovereignty is the principle that the leaders of a state and its government are created and sustained by the consent of its people, who are the source of all ...

  4. Optimates and populares - Wikipedia

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    Such argumentation took the form of an ideology of popular sovereignty, self-justifying the leadership of the comitia in the state. [104] Hölkeskamp suggested in 1997 that popularis ideology reflected a history of senatorial intransigence characterised as "partial and unlawful" which, over time, eroded the legitimacy of the senate in the ...

  5. Democratization - Wikipedia

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    The opposite process is known ... James C. Scott argues that governments may find it difficult to claim a sovereignty over a ... ignoring popular unrest and being ...

  6. Civic nationalism - Wikipedia

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    If, however, ethnic nationalism is interpreted broadly, as ethnocultural, while civic nationalism is interpreted narrowly, as involving a cultural conception of citizenship, the problem is the opposite: 'civic nationalism gets defined out of existence, and virtually all nationalisms would be coded as ethnic or cultural'.

  7. Political spectrum - Wikipedia

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    Origin of state authority: popular sovereignty (the state as a creation of the people, with enumerated, delegated powers) vs. various forms of absolutism and organic state philosophy (the state as an original and essential authority) vs. the view held in anarcho-primitivism that "civilization originates in conquest abroad and repression at home ...

  8. North Korea says it will not negotiate sovereignty with ... - AOL

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    SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea said it would never negotiate its sovereignty with the United States, criticising Washington as "double-faced" for offering talks while ramping up military activities ...

  9. Anti-Federalism - Wikipedia

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    The Anti-Federalists were composed of diverse elements, including those opposed to the Constitution because they thought that a stronger government threatened the sovereignty and prestige of the states, localities, or individuals; those that saw in the proposed government a new centralized, disguised "monarchic" power that would only replace ...