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The Declaration reflects several ideas of John Locke: Government's duty to protect people's natural rights.
People have the right " to alter or abolish" unjust governments.
Popular sovereignty, states that all government power comes from the people. -
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They saw the government in terms of social contract in which " we the people of the united states" entered.
There was also a seperation of powers among the judicial, legislative and executive branches; a concept borrowed from Montesquieu
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