People's consent and general will are two different principles to realize people's sovereignty. The consent of the people's sovereignty is to regard the people as

the ultimate source of state power, affirming that “power” is owned and endowed by the people. Taking the general will as the ideal appeal for realizing the people's sovereignty, the emphasis of political power as a public device, the political power used by the people and for the people must be fundamentally purposed to aim at the ultimateinterestandwellbeingof the people. The fact that the principles of consent and generalwillarecontradicted is initially the expressionoftheconflictbetween the attribution of power and the actual exercise of power. That is to say, although the power belongs to the people, the exercise of power may not accord with the will of the people.Inspite of this contradiction between them, it does not mean that they are completely opposite.It is necessary to guarantee the realization of the sovereignty of the people by application of two principles.If we can conbinethis two principles we will coordinate the free development of individuals with the common interests of the people, the basic good with common good, and individual good with public good.