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Sugar Act
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Stamp Act
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Boston Massacre
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Boston Tea Party
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The Battle of Lexington and Concord
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Declaration Independence
He writes that everyone has natural rights, if government does not protect those rights we can over throw that government. Popular sovereignty, which states that all government power comes from the people. -
Battle of Saratoga
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British Surrender Yorktown
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Constitutional Convention
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The Ratification Constitution
Its a social contract.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.