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Tax on sugar and coffee
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Tax on any paper product
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The Declaration reflects several ideas of John Locke: Government's duty to protect other people's natural rights. People have the right "to alter and 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 a social contract in which "We the people." There was also separation of powers among the judicial, legislative, and executive branches; a concept borrowed from Montesquieu
