The Declaration of Independence is an expression of American democracy principals as it explains the ideals that a government should uphold, which are symmetrical to those that a democracy does uphold. In the preamble, Thomas Jefferson uses the ideas of Locke to explain how in order to ensure their rights are protected, the people need to participate in the government and have the power to destroy it if needed: “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 to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it.” This quote shows that if the people are not involved in their government, than
