Translate this in your own words “That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”

"Governments are formed by men to protect these privileges, deriving their equal powers from the consent of the governed."

- "a.) it includes letters and books gathered over 1200 years, and consists of two parts.

- most of the new testament is letters from paul to the different churches, and since there's a new testament that means there is an old testament. "