HISTORY
ABSOLUTISM AND REVOLUTION
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Question
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Government power should be divided between individual states and a federal government.
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All government power ultimately derives from the consent of the people being governed.
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The authority to rule comes directly from God
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All people are born with natural rights that cannot be taken away.
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Detailed explanation-1: -popular sovereignty, also called squatter sovereignty, in U.S. history, a controversial political doctrine according to which the people of federal territories should decide for themselves whether their territories would enter the Union as free or slave states.
Detailed explanation-2: -Answer and Explanation: The correct answer is c. “ It is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security “. This involves the notion of people “contracting” with their security forces.
Detailed explanation-3: -To fully understand Rousseau’s concept of popular sovereignty it must be taken in the context of his earlier writing and political theory and rulership during the eighteenth century. The theory of popular sovereignty Rousseau develops in The Social Contract has precedent in Rousseau’s earlier writing.
Detailed explanation-4: -Sovereignty is a political concept that refers to dominant power or supreme authority. In a monarchy, supreme power resides in the “sovereign", or king. In modern democracies, sovereign power rests with the people and is exercised through representative bodies such as Congress or Parliament.
Detailed explanation-5: -The principle of POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY asserts that the people are the source of any and all government power, and government can exist only with the consent of the governed.