Popular sovereignty<span> or the </span>sovereignty<span> of the people's rule is the principle that the authority of a state and its government is created and sustained by the consent of its people, through their elected representatives (Rule by the People), who are the source of all political power.</span>
"Popular sovereignty" means the people are in charge of establishing a government over themselves.
The founding fathers of the United States adopted the idea of popular sovereignty from Enlightenment philosophers like John Locke (of England) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau (of France).
The Declaration of Independence (1776), written primarily by Thomas Jefferson, asserted the concept of popular sovereignty. The Declaration insisted that people institute governments in order to secure their rights, and that governments get their authority from the consent of the governed. "Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends," the Declaration of Independence said, "it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
Achieved status refers to a concept of social position which given to a certain individual due to the talents or personal efforts that the individual have. Examples of achieved status are : world tennis champion, world chess grandmaster, etc.
You're looking at an ancient sand dune. What this means is that the place used to be like a sandy desert, similar to those in Africa. That is because the composition of sand is mostly silica, which appears in the form of quartz.
