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-It is Government's duty to protect the people's natural rights.
-People have the right "to altar or abolish" unjust governments.
-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