Answer: D.
Explanation: "<u>T</u><u>he document should not be ratified, because it fails to secure basic rights for the individual, which were the essential principles of the Declaration of Independence</u>"
Let us start saying that it was when Schurz was a student at the University of Bonn, in early 1848, when news reached that the French people had removed their king and had established a representative government.
It was in that precise moment that Schurz got inspired and mmediately joined a group of revolutionaries determined to fight for civil liberties and national unity in Germany.
The answer to your question is the news that the French people had removed their king and had established a representative government.
Popular sovereignty, or sovereignty of the peoples' rule, is the principle that the authority of a state and its government are created and sustained by the consent of its people, through their elected representatives (Rule by the People), who is the source of all political power.
I believe your answer is B. people speaking their ideas against government in writing (sorry if I'm wrong)
