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Before the American Revolution, John Locke and Baron de Montesquieu wrote about the need for governments to be responsible to the people they govern. Montesquieu advocated constitutionalism and the preservation of civil liberties. Locke favored a social contract between a country’s citizens and their government.
Which quote from the Declaration of Independence MOST closely combines the ideas of these two men?

A “Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes. . . .”

B “Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”

“The history of the present . . . is a history of repeated injuries . . . having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny. . . .”

D “He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual . . . for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.”