The correct answer is B) popular sovereignty.
The popular Enlightenment philosophy that helped to inspire the American Revolution was popular sovereignty.
During the Enlightenment times, many thinkers and philosophers developed innovative ideas about the liberties of people and nations that influenced independence movements such as the Revolutionary War in which the American Colonies' Continental Army defeated the British troops to gain independence from the British crown.
The concept of popular sovereignty was one of these innovative concepts of the time and means that the people of a country is the one who gives authority to the government. People are the source of that sovereignty and have the right to elect and move their rulers.
