Question

Which document died the second paragraph of the declaration of independence echo?

John Locke's Second Treatise of Government
Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan
Baron de Montesquieu's The Spirit if Laws
The U.S. Constitution

Answer 1

Several parts of the Declaration of Independence echoed John Locke's Second Treatise of Government. Jefferson, who wrote the Declaration, studied Locke for many years.

Answer 2

The second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence echoed John Locke's Second Treatise of Government. The second paragraph contains the famous lines: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal..."