This passage demonstrates that Thomas Jefferson was directly influenced by the
...that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the
consent of the governed, -that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends,
it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, ...
Declaration of Independence, 1776
goals of the Albany Plan of Union
belief in the divine right of kings
ideas of John Locke
traditional separation of church and state