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Why was popular sovereignty revolutionary at the time the US Constitution was written?

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The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government." With popular sovereignty ratified and given form in written constitutions, the conflict of power and liberty was transformed into contests over politics

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