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The Declaration reflects several ideas of John Locke:
Government's duty to prtect the people's natural rights
People have the right to alter or abolish unjust governments -
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They saw the government in terms of a social contract in which we the people of the United States enterd
There was also a separation of powers among the judicial legislative and executive branches a concept borrowed from Montesquieu