Yes. Jefferson had read Locke and studied his ideas so he used them in the Declaration.
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two-thirds of the signers of the Declaration of Independence
they did not like it
The Declaration of Independence is not really the foundation of US law. It actually has no legal effect today at all, but it has profoundly influenced American thinking and culture. The foundation for our system of law is in the Constitution of the United States.
It had a major effect because it was nessesary to do. This got his messege more clear than before.
Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, which was in effect the declaration of war that resulted in the Revolutionary War, and he continued to be an inspiration for the idea of an independent and democratic American state.