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Today, as a rapidly rising ideology, populism threatens liberal democracies. Populism provides the ideological foundations and reasons for the semi-autoritarian semi-democratic regimes with a different conception of democracy. Populism promises unlimited, uncontrollable, and unshared power to governments which are expected to act according to the constitutional limits of this different concept of democracy. In the center of the authority potential of populism lies the conception of circular popular sovereignty. The philosophical and theoretical roots of this understanding are found in the views of Jean Jacques Rousseau and Carl Schmitt. These two philosophers' views are inspired by an unlimited, untransferable, undivided and misleading concept of sovereignty. This concept of sovereignty can be made possible thanks to the homogeneous, unified and authentic definition of the people. In populism, the idea that, despite its public assignment, the use of the surrounding sovereignty by the people is not conditional, and that it will not even be a very possible or desirable situation. In the end there is a concept of sovereignty that belongs to the people but is thought to be used by the organic party of the people, the spokesman or the leader instead of the people themselves.

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