What is an example of political patronage? a. a president delegating responsibilities to the executive departments
b. the CIA forwarding intelligence to the Department of Homeland Security
c. a president appointing personal friends as department secretaries
d. an independent agency acting without the president's approval

Im not exactly sure sorry but I do think that it is c

popular sovereignty   influenced the declaration of independence because the colonists wanted to have freedom to do they wanted so they put into writing

the committees of correspondence were the american colonies’ means for maintaining communication lines in the years before the revolutionary war. in 1764, boston formed the earliest committee of correspondence to encourage opposition to britain’s stiffening of customs enforcement and prohibition of american paper money. the following year, new york formed a similar committee to keep the other colonies notified of its actions in resisting the stamp act. in 1773, the virginia house of burgesses proposed that each colonial legislature appoint a committee for intercolonial correspondence. the exchanges that followed built solidarity during the turbulent times and bring about the formation of the first continental congress in 1774.