THEORY OF POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE

Abstract

The thought of a sovereign government that is unlimited, independent, indivisible and the highest has served through the history, for the various theoretic discussions about that topic and also for the practical justification of the government in a political community. Medieval absolutistic monarchs derieved the sovereignty of their government from the God`s will. Huge civilizational achievement represented the victory of idea of political people, i.e. the citizens of the particular state as the original holders of the sovereign government, which Jean Jacques Rousseau established with the Social Contract. Rousseau`s learning denies early absolutistic – imperial and theoretical understanding of the sovereignty, putting people into the foreground, which with the signing of the social agreement with its rulers became a carrier of the sovereign government. The foundation of today`s positive – legal constitutional order of democratic societies make abstract citizens as an equal members of political community of one society.