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Thomas Jefferson wrote it. The Declaration reflects ideas of John Locke: Government's duty to protect the people's natural rights. People Have the right ''to alter or abolish'' unjust governments. Popular Sovereignty,which states that all government power comes from the people.
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They saw the government in terms of a social contract in which ''We the people of the United States'' entered. There was also a separation of powers among the judicial, legislative and executive branches; a concept borrowed from Montesquieu.
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