Question

The following statements are from American writers:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Representatives and direct Taxes shall … be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, … and … three fifths of all other Persons.
Where the whole power of one department is exercised by the same hands which possess the whole power of another department, the fundamental principles of a free constitution are subverted.
You are not to inquire how your trade may be increased, nor how you are to become a great and powerful people, but how your liberties can be secured; for liberty ought to be the direct end of your government.

Which statement best reflects John Locke's idea of natural law?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Answer: (3.) The third reads, Where the whole power of one department is exercised by the same hands which possess the whole power of another department, the fundamental principles of a free constitution are subverted.

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On his treatise on political theory: The Spirit of the Laws (1748), Baron de Montesquieu developed the idea that the government power had to be partitioned into three different branches: the legislative, the judicial, and the executive, which had to rule under the law and check the other's powers. He believed that a model of government in which all power was held by one person or one body would be a threat to people's liberty and other fundamental principles, and would also promote abuses of power.

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