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The declaration shows that we, as citizens, have natural rights. It also states that people have the rights to alter or abolish unjust governments. The document also expressed the idea of popular sovereignty, which states that all government power comes from the people.
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American troops defeated the British at the Battle of Saratoga.
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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.
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