Locke v. Jefferson
Similarities
Section 4 vs. the 6th sentence
"A state also of equality, wherein all the power and jurisdiction is reciprocal, no one having more than another; there being nothing more evident, than that creatures of the same species and rank, promiscuously born to all the same advantages of nature, and the use of the same faculties. . ." (Section 4)
Similarities Declaration of Independence;
"We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal" (6th sentence)
The statements evoke the idea of freedom and equality of man to be imperative, and that government must acknowledge that.
Section 215 vs. sentence 36
Section 215:
"Thirdly, When, by the arbitrary power of the prince, the electors, or ways of election, are altered, without the consent, and contrary to the common interest of the people," (Sec. 216)
"He has refused for a long Time, after such Dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the Dangers of Invasion from without, and Convulsions within" (sentence 36)
Both of the documents emphasize the importance on the voice of the people regarding the authority. They both stress the importance of having a leader who stands for the society as a whole.
Sec. 221.
"There is therefore, secondly, another way whereby governments are dissolved, and that is, when the legislative, or the prince, either of them, act contrary to their trust. First, The legislative acts against the trust reposed in them, when they endeavour to invade the property of the subject, and to make themselves, or any part of the community, masters, or arbitrary disposers of the lives, liberties, or fortunes of the people."
"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 abolish it"
This idea is stating that the people have the right to get rid of their leader if the leader is taking their God given rights.
Sec. 220
Section 220:
“In these and the like cases, when the government is dissolved, the people are at liberty to provide for themselves, by erecting a new legislative, differing from the other, by the change of persons, or form, or both, as they shall find it most for their safety and good.”
Similarities in the Declaration of Independence:
“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, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”
In both documents, power over the government is given to the people. The people are given the power to change the government if they feel need be.
Sec. 219
Sec. 219
"There is one way more whereby such a government may be dissolved, and that is: When he who has the supreme executive power neglects and abandons that charge, so that the laws already made can no longer be put in execution;"
"He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing Importance, unless suspended in their Operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them."
The leader ignores laws that need to be passed.