Question

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."—Declaration of Independence This quote reflects the political principle of popular sovereignty because it requires that all citizens have the same status in society social contract because citizens will only agree to be ruled by those who are their equals natural rights because people are born equal with certain rights because they are humans democracy because if people are equal then they all have the right to run the government

Answer 1

This is true. It is known as popular sovereignty. However, if you look through history, we did not follow this concept. We claimed that any human being that was not white, was not equal. We claimed that they were inferior. They should not have had the same rights as a White man. So for the first part of Americas history, our officials were going against the basic principle of Constitution, the very reason the Constitution was written in the first place.