The principle is called Popular Sovereignty. Popular since it comes from the populous (people), and sovereignty meaning the right to rule.
<span>This feeling of detachment is known as anomie. Émile Durkheim identified anomie as a form of breakdown of the bonds between an individual and his society, so that society does not provide him with functional moral guidance. The Kitty Genovese case may be an example of urban anomie, since social bonds did not function to prompt her neighbors to alert police.</span>
They were called border ruffians
