Sovereign people
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
A term familiarly used to describe the political body, consisting of the entire number of citizens and qualified electors, who, in their collegiate capacity, possess the powers of sovereignty and exercise them through their chosen representatives.
See Scott v. Sand-ford, 19 How. 404, 15 L. Eld. 691.