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"From decades of debate on the colonists' right to self-government,popular sovereignty had emerged as the basic principle of legitimate government. But how was this principle to be realized in practice? ...Whig social contract theory specified that sovereignty resided in the will of the majority of the participants in the contract,limited only by the individual member's right to life,liberty,and property. Applied to the colonies,the question was,who were the legitimate participants in the new polity based on contract?"
Willi Paul Adams,The First American Constitutions,1980
-Which of the following would have argued most energetically in support of a limited definition of the legitimate participants in government?

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The Federalists would have argued most energetically in support of a limited definition of the legitimate participants in government. They believed that only property owners should have the right to vote and participate in government, rather than the broader definition of "the will of the majority" advocated by Whig social contract theory.

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