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Consent of the governed.
The Mayflower Compact is important because of its principle, that a government's authority derives from the consent of the governed. The signers of the Compact stated that the pilgrims had to work together in order to survive in the new world
The parliament forced the monarch to sign the petition of right because it demands an end to taxing without consent, imprisoning citizens illegally, housing troops in citizens' homes, and military government in peacetime.
The principle of popular sovereignty states that all political power resides with the people of the United States. This means that the government can only carry out the issues that the people consent to.