The principle of popular government is that the supreme power, the determining efficacy in matters political, resides in the people--not necessarily or commonly in the whole people, in the numerical majority, but in a CHOSEN people, a picked and selected people.
Bagehot defines the principle of popular government as residing in a selected group of people rather than the majority.
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