Question

Of the following men, which one believed that sovereign powers reside with the citizens and the government gets its authority from the consent of the governed?

Thomas Paine
John Hanwingspan
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu

Answer 1

It would be "Jean-Jacques Rousseau" who believed that sovereign powers reside with the citizens and the government gets its authority from the consent of the governed, since he was a major Enlightenment thinker. Paine also believed this, however.