Popular sovereignty
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Americans strongly believed sovereignty should be held by the people in there new nation. The preamble begins with the words "we the people..." and these words announce that people make government and give it power. Government receives power from people and it can not govern the people without there consent. The idea of popular sovereignty was boldly declared in the declaration of independence.