What did John Locke do for the Declaration of Independence?
John Locke’s basic theory was that a higher “Natural Law” guaranteed liberty to every person and that this natural law was morally superior to all human laws and governments, each individual possesses certain inalienable rights, among these are life, liberty, and property. These theories contributed to the American Revolution and to the Declaration of Independence which when Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence he used John Locke’s theory. Some people would say that Thomas Jefferson used John Locke’s theory even to the point of plagiarism.
