Read the passages from Locke’s Two Treatises of Government and the Declaration of Independence. Then answer the question that follows.What is the relationship between these two passages?

Locke argued that government is based on a trust between rulers and the people. If rulers violate that trust, the people may change or replace the government. The Declaration of Independence echoes this idea by saying that people may alter or abolish a government that fails to protect their rights, so Locke’s ideas helped shape the Declaration.

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