If We Lose John Locke, We Lose America

Most of us learned the key ideas of the Declaration of Independence in school: that “all men are created equal,” are “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,” and that the government’s job is “to secure these rights.”

This was a radical departure from the way things had always been.

Where did these revolutionary ideas come from? Ben Shapiro explains in this illuminating video.