Similarly,political sovereignty cannot be equated to public opinion. Public opinion is of a highly fluctuating nature and it is susceptible to varied influences. Then,public opinion must have two characteristics. It should be, in the first place,an opinion of a public nature,and secondly, it should be as widely held by the public as possible. But one cannot always be sure that the Opinion actually held is of a public nature. Perhaps the demagogue might have made the decision for them, or the religious or caste appeal had influenced it. Finally, in a representative government,legislature is said to be the barometer of public opinion. Here public opinion is identified with the political sovereign and it may coincide with the legal sovereign,as the British Parliament is.
Political sovereignty, thus, proves to be vague and indeterminate. At many stages it becomes confusing and "the more one searches for this final authority the more it seems to elude one's grasp" Yet, we cannot
Similarly,political sovereignty cannot be equated to public opinion. Public opinion is of a highly fluctuating nature and it is susceptible to varied influences. Then,public opinion must have two characteristics. It should be, in the first place,an opinion of a public nature,and secondly, it should be as widely held by the public as possible. But one cannot always be sure that the Opinion actually held is of a public nature. Perhaps the demagogue might have made the decision for them, or the religious or caste appeal had influenced it. Finally, in a representative government,legislature is said to be the barometer of public opinion. Here public opinion is identified with the political sovereign and it may coincide with the legal sovereign,as the British Parliament is.Political sovereignty, thus, proves to be vague and indeterminate. At many stages it becomes confusing and "the more one searches for this final authority the more it seems to elude one's grasp" Yet, we cannot
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