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What belief is the principle of popular sovereignty based upon?

The government must be run by officials who are appointed to the office by their predecessors.

The government gets its power from them people and can exist only with their consent.

The people have the authority to declare any federal or state law against Constitution by voting on it.

The people do not have to obey any laws with which they disagree.


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>> The government gets its power from them people and can exist only with their consent.

Step-by-step explanation:

The Popular Sovereignty Principle is part of the ideas of the United States Constitution.

Sovereignty (government) relies on the people. Government should be beneficial for the people. One of its main goals is to protect people, otherwise it should be dissolved.

This idea came through the period of the Enlightenment, by the England thinkers Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau from Switzerland.

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