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How did John Locke influence the Declaration of Independence?
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October 08, 2009 6:28PM
he suggested the 3 branches of goverment, and a legislative contract and citizens
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The Declaration of Independence 1776 has had a major influence on peoples throughout the world because it?

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How did John Locke influence Declaration of Independence?

John Locke wanted everyone to have the "right to life, liberty,
and property" which is used in the Declaration of Independence as
the "right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." His
ideas of the social contract, in which everyone in a society is
accountable to one another, and the idea of governments deriving
their power from the consent of the governed were both
revolutionary concepts in 1776 that made their way into the
Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
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Authors of the Declaration of Independence?

Thomas Jefferson and John Locke
Answer: John Locke died in 1704. The Declaration of Independence
was written in 1776. Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of
Independence (which it says on his grave). There were four other
men on the committee helping him: Benjamin Franklin, John Adams,
Robert Livingston, and Roger Sherman.