"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? (3 points)

The principle of government do the people have the duty described in this quote is under social contract. It is an implicit agreement among the members of a society to cooperate for social benefits, for example by sacrificing some individual freedom for state protection. Theories of a social contract became popular in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries among theorists such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as a means of explaining the origin of government and the obligations of subjects.

explanation: j

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