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How do governments derive their power according to Jefferson?
Governments derive their powers from the consent of the governed.
What types of governments did the Middle Colonies have?
They were democratic and had a self-government.
Where does the declaration of independence say governments get their power?
The government gets its power to govern as enumerated in the declaration of independence from the constitution.
The phrase in the Declaration of Independence stating "that governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed" illustrates the principle of?
the Social Contract theory
Which action by Britain did the colonists believe violated the principle stated in the Declaration of Independence that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed?
passage of the stamp act.
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