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Connections between the Declaration of Independence and the first principle, popular sovereignty

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Popular sovereignty was asserted as a founding principle of the United States of America. The Declaration of Independence of 1776 asserts that legitimate governments are those ''deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed.

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