Also known as: popular sovereignty, popular sovereignty in Haiti
Last updated: April 23, 2026
ardouin introduction extraction makes the concept explicit. Ardouin presents himself as a "member of the sovereign people" and therefore entitled to judge Haiti's past and future. That move turns history-writing into a civic act and makes sovereignty the standard by which he will evaluate rulers.
sovereignty-haiti — the absence of democratic legitimacy that defined his government from the start
Beaubrun Ardouin
sovereignty-haiti — the "sovereign people" as collective political actor.
sovereignty-haiti — the void that gang populism claims to fill
sovereignty-haiti — the institutional form through which the majority exercised self-determination
Haitian Declaration of Independence
Piquet Rebellion 1844
Popular Sovereignty Haiti
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