The correct answer is that Thomas Jefferson stated in the Declaration of Independence that the government’s power derives from the consent of the governed.
The Declaration of Independence was based in many of John Locke’s philosophy and it included the right that the population has to start a revolution when the government is despotic. Because of this Thomas Jefferson defends that the government’s power derives from the people and the British government did not respect the American people as their people and because of this they wanted independence.