Use the excerpts to answer the question.
"That whenever any form of government becomes destructive... it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government."
-Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence, 1776
"A people are therefore enslaved when the government... infringes on and usurps the rights of the citizen or subject."
-Simón Bolívar, Letter from Jamaica, 1815
What similar reasons did Jefferson and Bolívar give to justify revolutions against colonial rule in their homelands?
AThey accused their colonial rulers of violating the social contract theory they had with their subjects.
BThey preferred republican governments based on checks and balances and separation of powers rather than absolute monarchies.
CThey believed their European colonial governments had become too unstable after they were conquered by Napoléon.
DThey wanted to replace governments that supported slavery and racial inequality.
"That whenever any form of government becomes destructive... it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government."
-Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence, 1776
"A people are therefore enslaved when the government... infringes on and usurps the rights of the citizen or subject."
-Simón Bolívar, Letter from Jamaica, 1815
What similar reasons did Jefferson and Bolívar give to justify revolutions against colonial rule in their homelands?
AThey accused their colonial rulers of violating the social contract theory they had with their subjects.
BThey preferred republican governments based on checks and balances and separation of powers rather than absolute monarchies.
CThey believed their European colonial governments had become too unstable after they were conquered by Napoléon.
DThey wanted to replace governments that supported slavery and racial inequality.