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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 inn terms of a social contract "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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