How is feudalism different from popular sovereignty?

Well, Feudalism is the name given to a political culture, where a monarch or a leader of a non-democratic country controls a nation, by striking deals with the local landlords. read more

National sovereignty is the exercise of sovereign power by a state's government whereas popular sovereignty is that exercised collectively by the people comprising a nation. In sufficiently-democratic states, the causally-responsive link between exercise of popular sovereignty and that of national sovereignty has a strong nexus of causality. read more

Popular sovereignty is the basis for federalism. Without popular sovereignty there could be no federalism. All just political power originates in the people. They delegate some of it to governments at all levels through constitutions. read more

Sovereignty refers to a political culture, where a political state has complete control over itself, and that no external power controls it. In fact, when people say that ‘a country gained it's independence’, what they actually mean, is that the country gained sovereignty, and it no longer a colony of any foreign nation. read more