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Which philossophers called all people the ''sovereign'' meaning all power should rest with them ?

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Thomas Hobbes It is closely associated with social contract philosophers such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Popular sovereignty expresses a concept and does not necessarily reflect or describe a political reality.
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