"when a long train of abuses and usurpations…evinces a design to reduce them [the colonists] under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security."–declaration of independence

under what principle of government do the people have the duty described in this quote?

natural rights

social contract

popular sovereignty

limited government

The correct answer is B) Social Contract.

The principle of government described in this quote is the Social Contract.

The Social Contract concept refers to the authority of the state over the individual. Developed in the Enlightenment years by prominent thinkers such as Thomas Hobbes, the Social Contract implies a semi-submissive attitude by the citizens to give up some freedom in order to be protected by the state, and obey the laws and regulations of that state.

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