What is Republicanism...can you make it simple and if you want maybe even explain?

Support for a republican system of government.

The principles or policies of the Republican Party. In the US

Explanation:

Republicanism is a political ideology centered on citizenship in a state- organized as a republic. Historically, it ranges from the rule of a representative minority or oligarchy to popular sovereignty.

swe hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. — that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. "

- declaration of independence

  according to this passage from the declaration of independence, who gives government the power to exist?

a) the king

b) the people

c) their creator

d) their governmenthook

by creating a labor shortage that pushed the continent toward a market economy