Thomas Jefferson · Politics
In a few hundred words drafted in a Philadelphia summer, Jefferson distilled the Enlightenment theory of rights into a charter that justified one revolution and seeded countless others.
You learned that the Declaration argues from rights to the right of revolution. In your own words, trace the logical chain from ‘all men are created equal’ to the colonists’ right to abolish their government.
Leads to John Locke.
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