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John Locke had ideas that the United states of American saw as useful elements that they should include in the Declaration of independence. The ideas include consent of governed, natural rights, right of revolution. Consent of the governed, consent meaning "permission", obviously is saying that the leader needs the consent, or permission of who they are governing. Natural Rights, are the rights that you have when you are born and cannot be taken away. The rights that were taken away from Locke's ideas are Life, and Liberty.

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The Bill of Rights is the first 10 amendments(Changes) to the constitution. They are a list of rights that are never supposed to go away. We have the bill of rights because people in the United States feared that the government would have too much power so the people decided to have some rights that the government couldn't take away. The bill of rights is a very important component to the government.

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The United States of America wrote the declaration of independence so that we could tell Britain that we wanted to become separate from them. In the declaration of independence we complained about how the King George was and how we wanted to be able to choose our leader.We wanted to become like all other countries and become equal to them. The "spirit" of the declaration of independence is America becoming its own country. The main points of the declaration is the idea of life, liberty(Locke ideas), and pursuit of happiness. The declaration of independence was basically the starting document of the United States.

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The right of revolution is an Locke idea that the United States adopted. The right of revolution is when the government is not serving its purpose, the people can overthrow it or change it. The people can only have the right to do this if the government is abusing its power too much or has been for too long.

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John Locke and Thomas Hobbes were two men who expressed their  opinions about government and their involvement with humans. John Locke had a lot of faith in humanity, he believed that humans were born a blank slate and the government influences them. Locke also believed in the system of a Direct Democracy, meaning that he thought civilians could make all the decisions about their government. Locke believed the purpose of the government is to protect the civilians natural rights. Opposing the Direct Democracy, Thomas Hobbes believed in the system of a Absolute Monarchy. An absolute monarchy can be related to another system called "Totalitarianism", where there is a leader that also decides what happens in the country without any consent. Hobbes believed that if the civilians were given the chance to run their government by themselves than there would be chaos and the civilians would hurt themselves as well as hurt others. So he believed the purpose of the government was to have full control and to make sure that the civilians didn't hurt themselves or others.

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A pure democracy is when the civilians can decide 100% what happens in their countries government and whatever they say is accepted as correct. A republic is when the civilians provide ideas to make permanent laws that will decide what is acceptable and not acceptable to have in their government. What we have in America is a Representative Democracy which is when the civilians vote for people that will represent, or choose what happens in the country.