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Our constitution is called a democracy because power is in the hands not of a minority but of the whole people . . . . When it is a question of putting one person before another in positions of public responsibility, what counts is not membership of a particular class, but the ability the man possesses. -Pericles, 400 B.C.
The principle of the Constitution described here by Pericles could also be referred to as—
A. popular sovereignty
B. federalism
C. an aristocracy
D. a monarchy
What is popular sovereignty