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what american founding father and declaration of independence writer did the enlightment philospher john locke influenace the most?

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Thomas Jefferson used the thoughts first penned by John Locke while writing the Declaration of Independence. The phrase "life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness," was an idea first considered by Locke in his Two Treatises on Government.
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