Answer and Explanation:
Expansion and centralization encourages disadvantaged groups to come together and resist State attempts to promote new policies to these groups. These groups, feeling devalued and threatened by centralization and expansion, whether at the social, political or economic level, they feel that they need to defend themselves in their local environments. Several examples of this can be cited as the Cossack revolt, the Pueblo revolt and the resistance of the Brazilian quilombola communities.
It would be the "Fundamental Orders of Connecticut" that is <span>credited with being the original example of the american value of self government, although the Mayflower Compact also gets some recognition. </span>
The Congress of the United States in fact retains most of the power in these two areas relative to the President and the individual states, with Congress having the power to declare war and confirm ambassadors appointed by the President.
<em>Popular Sovereignty</em> is an important <em>enlightenment</em> idea that established that the sovereign power is vested among the people who are being governed and choose to be governed. This means the government gets power from the people and the people who are being governed are the <em>source</em> of political power. This is present in the US because the US Government politically acts based on the citizens. To be specific, people can express themselves to the government by having the obligation to <em>vote</em> and <em>directly participate in the government</em> by attending town meetings and such.
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