Which sentence from the declaration of independence best develops the idea that representative government is the basis of our constitutional democracy?

a. it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve its political bands which have connected them with one another.

b. he has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

c. that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

d. it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and provide new guards for their future security.