
“As the most famous product of the Enlightenment, the Declaration of Independence, put it, in order to secure the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, governments are instituted among people, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed”
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Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
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