The Pros And Cons Of Popular Sovereignty
In America, nearly everyone has heard the phrase, “We the people…” it’s a quote from our constitution- the very thing that drives the nation; but this isn’t true. The quote is referring to popular sovereignty which means that the people have complete power (in this case: government) and this has been the idea behind our government since the very birth of it. But when’s the last time you had ever had a say? I believe the term Popular Sovereignty should be reimagined in a way that it actually has an effect, because it hasn’t for centuries. You quite literally have no power when it comes to the government-- your votes, at its simplest form, do close to nothing and if you try to petition or protest you have an absurdly small chance of being heard
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It’s the worst of them all. A petition is, like our currency, just a piece of paper, so unlike protests, the people involved are only considered to be a name, contrary to a living being. This way of thinking is so critical that, “... in 2012, 50 states submitted a petition with hundreds of thousands of signature[s] asking to secede from the union” (GeekPause) needless to say it failed, but I can guarantee you that if all of those people were physically standing there when it was being read it would’ve been passed. Though a petition isn’t likely to do anything it does have the greatest potential in the way that if there are enough signatures, then it could have a greater appeal then a protest or a vote. For example let’s say a petition for a new constitution in America got more signatures than the amount of people living in America (a guaranteed successful petition). It would still take some persuading because of all the work involved in writing the new constitution. But even after all of the work put into the petition, the general population will not have anything to do with the writing of the document, because what would most likely happen is that they’d follow in the footsteps of the Constitutional Convention where, as we all know, was made up of government officials and
It’s the worst of them all. A petition is, like our currency, just a piece of paper, so unlike protests, the people involved are only considered to be a name, contrary to a living being. This way of thinking is so critical that, “... in 2012, 50 states submitted a petition with hundreds of thousands of signature[s] asking to secede from the union” (GeekPause) needless to say it failed, but I can guarantee you that if all of those people were physically standing there when it was being read it would’ve been passed. Though a petition isn’t likely to do anything it does have the greatest potential in the way that if there are enough signatures, then it could have a greater appeal then a protest or a vote. For example let’s say a petition for a new constitution in America got more signatures than the amount of people living in America (a guaranteed successful petition). It would still take some persuading because of all the work involved in writing the new constitution. But even after all of the work put into the petition, the general population will not have anything to do with the writing of the document, because what would most likely happen is that they’d follow in the footsteps of the Constitutional Convention where, as we all know, was made up of government officials and