USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Most scholars today believe that Jefferson derived the most famous ideas in the Declaration of Independence from the writings of English philosopher John Locke.

Detailed explanation-2: -John Locke’s philosophy inspired and reflected Enlightenment values in its recognition of the rights and equality of individuals, its criticism of arbitrary authority (e.g., the divine right of kings), its advocacy of religious toleration, and its general empirical and scientific temperament.

Detailed explanation-3: -It was the ideas of philosophers such as John Locke in England and Louis, Baron de Montesquieu in France to which Thomas Jefferson turned in writing the Declaration.

Detailed explanation-4: -Both John Locke and Thomas Jefferson believe that people have certain natural rights and that it is the government’s job to protect these rights. Their documents were both written for revolutions, although they were two very different revolutions.