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 Which Enlightenment principle most influenced the ideas in this excerpt?
A. John Locke's ideas of the social contract
B. Thomas Hobbes's idea of the natural equality
C. Montesquieu's idea of separation of powers
D. Voltaire's idea of the importance of toleration