Which quotation from the Preamble to the Declaration of Independence supports the idea that the United States is based on a social contract?

A social contract is the idea that government gets its authority from the people, who consent to be governed. The quotation stating that governments derive their just powers from “the consent of the governed” expresses this idea directly. Therefore, the correct choice is “Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”

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