THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
AMERICAN REVOLUTION SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACT
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Parliament
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the King
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the President
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the people
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Detailed explanation-1: -According to the Declaration of Independence, the government gets its power to govern from the people that it governs. As the Declaration says, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
Detailed explanation-2: -The independent states claim the power to levy war, make peace, make alliances with foreign nations, conduct trade, and to do anything else that independent states have the right to do.
Detailed explanation-3: -The second sentence of the second section of the Declaration states, “That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men . . . .” According to the Declaration, people establish governments in order to ensure that their rights are guaranteed and protected; that is the purpose of government.