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Thomas Jefferson was the author of the Declaration. He drafted his ideas from John Locke.
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The ideas of John Locke and Thomas Paine influenced the writing of the Declaration of Independance.
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Two of Thomas Jefferson's ideas were also John Locke's ideas (life and liberty), and the other one was pursuit of happiness. He wrote this instead of "property", because he didn't want to plagiarize what John Locke wrote.
Thomas Jefferson believed that one of the primary functions of government was to protect the rights of the people. Jefferson was significantly influenced by the ideas of john Locke, an English philosopher.