According to the Declaration, governments are formed

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. This was an idea that derived from Enlightenment thinkers such as John Locke.

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the answer should be b.

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it should be b because she researched before writing so it would be in past tense. "the author researches her subject before she had written the first draft.

that is true because that is something they fulfill for their work.