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 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.

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