THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
AMERICAN REVOLUTION SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACT
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Natural Rights
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Social Contract
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Fundamental Rights
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.” In 1783, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court held that slavery was directly contrary to constitutional principles delineated in the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights.
Detailed explanation-2: -In political philosophy, the phrase consent of the governed refers to the idea that a government’s legitimacy and moral right to use state power is justified and lawful only when consented to by the people or society over which that political power is exercised.
Detailed explanation-3: -The introductory sentence states the Declaration’s main purpose, to explain the colonists’ right to revolution. In other words, “to declare the causes which impel them to the separation.” Congress had to prove the legitimacy of its cause. It had just defied the most powerful nation on Earth.