The correct answer to this open question is the following.
Benjamin Franklin was influenced by John Locke in that Benjamin Franklin -one of the United States founding fathers- truly believed in the concepts of natural rights and individual rights that humans had, concepts first expressed by the Enlightenment thinker John Locke.
To Lock, humans were born with natural rights and the government had to respect them and defend them, when that was the case. Ideas that impacted Franklin during the colonial American times and were adapted to the Declaration of Independence, and later to the United States Constitution.