Read the following excerpt from the Declaration of Independence. Which Enlightenment idea is reflected in the excerpt? 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.

A.
social contract
B.
popular sovereignty
C.
unlimited government
D.
absolute monarchy