In the list of Greivances to the King, which philospher mostly influenced Jefferson?

Question

Please give 3 quotes that support. Thank you.

Answer 1

"English political theorist John Locke has often been cited as a primary influence on the Declaration. As historian Carl L. Becker wrote in 1922, "Most Americans had absorbed Locke's works as a kind of political gospel; and the Declaration, in its form, in its phraseology, follows closely certain sentences in Locke's second treatise on government."

These John Locke quotes are VERY similar to some ideas from the Declaration of Independence (in which, of course, the list of Grievances were listed)--

--"All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions."

--"Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself."

--"[Power then] devolves to the People, who have a Right to resume their original Liberty, and, by the Establishment of a new Legislative (such as they shall think fit) provide for their own Safety and Security, which is the end for which they are in Society."

--"Any single man must judge for himself whether circumstances warrant obedience or resistance to the commands of the civil magistrate; we are all qualified, entitled, and morally obliged to evaluate the conduct of our rulers. This political judgment, moreover, is not simply or primarily a right, but like self-preservation, a duty to God. As such it is a judgment that men cannot part with according to the God of Nature. It is the first and foremost of our inalienable rights without which we can preserve no other"

Answer 2

that would be john locke