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The Declaration reflects several ideas of John Locke: Government's duty to protect the people's natural rights. People have the right "to alter or abolish" unjust government.
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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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