Norfolk County is a county located in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. At the 2010 census, the population was 670,850. Its county seat is Dedham. The county was named after the English county of the same name with the meaning northern folk. Two towns, Cohasset and Brookline, are exclaves.
Popular sovereignty. Popular sovereignty or the sovereignty of the people is the principle that the authority of the government is created and sustained by the consent of its people, who are the source of all political power.
Popular sovereignty is a basic idea of democracy. Popular sovereignty means that the people are the ultimate source of the authority of their government.  Popular sovereignty means that democratic government is BY THE PEOPLE AND FOR THE PEOPLEfor the benefit of the people, not for the benefit of those who govern in their name.  Government in a democracy is the SERVANT OF THE PEOPLE; it is not their master.